And if you must go to work tomorrow, well, if I were you I really wouldn’t bother

Morning all, I'm back at work. I've been more than usually offline this Christmas, so you are in fact spared the remainder of my nth-day-of-Christmas write-ups. I had a nice relaxed time at home, a fun Christmas, and a really good new year. There, that was much less painful than a screed of backdated entries, now, wasn't it ?

If anyone's desperately curious about the disconcerting toilets marjory and I found in Darlington's nicest pub, about the fun of reading books on the M1, the details of just how many variations there are in Mini Cooper wheels, or about the confusion of trying to cook a new year's eve roast dinner in an oven which appears to lie about its temperature they can apply to the usual address for details. Similarly, if anyone's posted anything on their journal in the last ten days or so which they really think they want or need me to see, they should tell me about it.

Most importantly, of course, The Calendar is dead. Long live The Calendar! This year irregular doses of trivia will brought to this journal via the Schott's Original Miscellany 2005 Calendar.

If I had a gun, there'd be no tomorrow

One of the few interesting things to look at when driving on a motorway is bridge graffiti. There's a surprising wealth of pro-hunting graffiti on M1 bridges at present.

However, I've noticed in the past that there are a few bridges (on the M40, I think, and possibly one on the M1) which say "Gouranga" on them. Rather than uneven spraycan letters, the word tends to be written in neat caps, possibly even pre-written on tiles and stuck on the bridge (driving past at 70 doesn't give you an awful lot of time for careful examination). Anyway, I've seen Gouranga enough times to be vaguely curious.

I've just received my first ever bit of spam to my 'real' email address. It comes from an AOL address, and wasn't picked up by my spam filter.

It reads:

Call out Gouranga be happy!!!
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga ....
That which brings the highest happiness!!

Curious now, so I googled.

That explains that, then.