• Pet Insurance 'Should Include Dental Care'
  Yes, it should. Tesco Insurance, I'm looking at you.
  (tags: news insurance cats)
• Coquet Cottages - Experience Northumberland in Style Home
  Luxury accommodation in Northumbria.
  (tags: Northumberland accommodation holiday travel)
• Burnfoot Holiday Cottages, Northumberland - luxury self catering cottage holidays
  Holiday cottages in Northumberland. Would probably need a fair bit of driving, though.
  (tags: northumbria holiday accommodation travel)
• Book our Coastal Cottages by the sea | Coastal Retreats
  Accommodation in Northumberland. Prestige.
  (tags: northumberland holiday travel accommodation)

• The Sarah Matheson Trust :: home page
  Offers advice and help for sufferers, carers, families and medical professionals living or working with MSA (Multiple System Atrophy).
  (tags: MSA charity disease medicine Sarah_Matheson_Trust Multiple_System_Atrophy)
• Jazz Horse - Weebl's Stuff
  Jazz version of Amazing Horse. Probably NSFW.
  (tags: animation music flash Weebl)

Tom: I was thinking about Domburg.

Me: Yes? What were you thinking about?

Tom: I was thinking about when we saw Kraak en Smaak.

Me: Well, we actually saw them in Middelburg, in the Abdijplein. But it isn’t far from Domburg.

Tom: Yes, that’s right. [pause] Abdijplein is a funny word. It’s double Dutch! Abdijplein! Heeheehee! (pronounced perfectly: ab-dye-pline)

• Agencia Estatal de Meteorología - AEMET. Gobierno de España
  Spanish equivalent of the Met Office. I couldn't get the English version of the site to work, but the Spanish version is simple enough for a non-linguist to navigate. Gives a more plausible forecast than Weather Underground which currently forecasts temperature fluctuations of 17 degrees Celsius within 24 hours for Cordoba.
  (tags: weather Spain meteorology Europe)

• Funtime Faces balloons
  More modelling balloons than you could shake a stick at.
  (tags: balloons shop)

• Leysieffer - Home
  German chocolatiers. They make chocolate with Juniper berries - I recently picked some up in Dusseldorf. It is the closest thing to gin-flavoured chocolate you can imagine and is really rather good.
  (tags: Leysieffer chocolate juniper food confectionery Germany shop)

I’ve just experienced this first hand. Contrary to the reports, some areas, particularly Folkestone, have received more than 15cm of snow. I stood in it and it was nearer 20cm and drifting.

I was supposed to have gone to Dover today and on to the Netherlands for work. Normally it takes me about 1 hour 40 minutes to get to Dover. After an hour stuck on the M20 going nowhere at the Channel Tunnel exit, I managed to get off the motorway and turned back. My round trip took me six and a quarter hours.

I can also recommend avoiding the B2063 Hospital Hill in Folkestone when it is like this. It is, um, interesting to descend when covered in thick snow and ice. The row of damaged and dented cars abandoned on the side of the road don’t give confidence.