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Hello, folks. I've not been around for a couple of months - not for any good reason, just that life has been getting in the way somewhat and apparently reading here has somehow fallen off the list. If you've posted anything you really want me to know about, could you flag it up?

Anyway, I have to get back to writing down what I get up to or I will literally have no idea in a few months time.

This Easter, my grand plan was do to fantastic amounts of nothing, to bond with my sofa, and snooze. However, ChrisC counter-suggested that we shoehorn in a night away somewhere. For reasons that were not especially apparent, he settled on Lewes as being not too far from London, and potentially interesting. After some Googling we found a B&B, and booked (no thanks to Expedia, which seems to be quite blasé about pubs-with-the-same-name when you are following links). When we pooled what we actually knew about Lewes, it turned out to be (a) they like setting fire to stuff on Bonfire Night, (b) they have a castle, and (c) um, that's it actually.

However, it all worked out reasonably well, so here is my guide to how to have a slightly surprised 24 hours in Lewes.

The Rambly Guide to Lewes )
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A couple of weekends ago, I skipped out of work slightly early and caught the 17:30 to Glasgow. ChrisC spotted, months ago, that there were cheap tickets on one of the Virgin West Coast lightning sales, and we thought hey, why not? Glasgow is, after all, one of the biggest cities in the UK and neither of us really knows it.

...when I called you last night from Glasgow )

Overall, Glasgow is lovely. Its centre was largely built in the period best described as Victorian Twiddly, which means it has (like Edinburgh and large chunks of West Yorkshire) a rather pleasantly grand air. It's got a nice big river (unlike Edinburgh which has a weird fake valley), and it's got Big Art all over the place. Some cracking museums, and some really good places to eat.
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Those of you who have seen my rapper team's Facebook updates will already know the punchline to this story: we had to pull out of the competition at the weekend.

Some bad news )

So we went to spectate, instead )

And I had a lovely Sunday lunch )

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