On the road again

Today, I shall be driving with (PFE-supporter and friend) Mike to Rotterdam, via Le Shuttle. We’re undertaking a week-long tour of the Netherlands and Belgium to visit a whole host of plant growers, propagators and breeders’ agents. It’ll be hard work and tiring, but hopefully we will get a little downtime in as well – Mike and I usually try to get to a few decent restaurants on these trips, as well as a sight or two if there is time (recent conquests include Essen cathedral treasury and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam).

So, expect quiet here this week. I’ll have my laptop with me, so infrequent updates should be possible – just don’t expect much rambling, nor any long-winded airport monologues. Monologuing is hard to do when driving.

Lots of links

This site includes 17783 links, internal and external. That’s an awful lot of links. Of these, about 450 are broken, mostly links to sites that have now ceased to be.
How do I know this? I used Xenu’s Link Sleuth. Be warned though – to scan all the links on my site took the Sleuth a couple of hours.

Beer with…

(last night) Lord Percy, Lady Bren, Fi, Nicola, the other Helen W, Steve, Paul C, Paul F, Kearn, Steen, Al, Arron, Leah, Simon, Debbie, Simon, Ruth, Hamish and Terry. The first Friday night drinks I’ve had in Chichester for a long while – and it’ll probably be a long while again before the next time.

Idle thoughts

33 years ago today, Jim Morrison was found dead in his hotel. If he was alive today, he would be sixty years of age.
What do you think he would have been like as a sixty year old? And was his fame magnified purely because he died young?

Geek?

It’s the little things that keep me happy – like successfully setting up my laptop so that I check my email and surf the web via my mobile phone. Undoubtedly only likely to be used infrequently, and almost certain to be very expensive when I do – but it could be useful functionality one day.