Comment from Naomi Hunt
Time: June 25, 2008, 3:39 pm

Right now, I am trying to read your website at work on the sly, whilst worrying about whether the big blob of plum I’ve just dropped in the keyboard is the reason why my right cursor key won;t work : (
I bet you;re not missing the trivialities of office life!
On a wider scale Ben and I are house hunting and wedding ring shopping which is a lot more exciting – hurrah!
Hope you;re both having fun. T’ra! Naomi x

Comment from martin
Time: June 25, 2008, 6:02 pm

I’m at work – late shift – 5 mins to go. Finally getting into RSS to try and keep on top of all the technical articles I feel I should know and keep abreast off. Just starting with google reader to manage rss feeds, thought I’d add yours well. Does this count as me finally embrassing web 2? or is this like web 1.001?

Comment from Tadders
Time: June 25, 2008, 7:16 pm

Chaps, usual stuff as everyone else had noted, I am sat in a work cafe in New Mexico with 3 other folks trying to get some strategy defined for unimportant trivial stuff! Fly back to AZ later today. On a more interesting note, we got the trailer out on Monday night and are getting ready to head up to Northern Arizona to go camping this weekend. This weekend will be a quiet one (no quads), we are trying our hand at fishing, that will be interesting as I am sure you remember how patient a person I am! Mostly we will be getting out of the heat (currently 115F here, where we are going it will be 90F) and enjoying the scenery, it is amazing up there. This will be our fourth trip up north of late. We have become weekend exploiters! We’ve been camping 6 times this year, Mexico twice, out on our friends boat once and we have another 8 trips planned already! It’s awesome.

Not quite the travelling you guys are getting into, but a definite reason to work hard during the week and then get the hell away from the laptop at the weekend! Most of the places we go have no cell service and certainly dont have wi-fi! wohoo.

Sorry to hear about your ear, hope you are getting better now.

Comment from Sista
Time: June 26, 2008, 4:50 pm

I am having my ankles bitten by my latest kitten, the Ginger Terror, and wondering what I can do with Sallyanne, who arrives on Saturday for a week. x

Comment from Chloe
Time: June 26, 2008, 7:04 pm

Playing with Freya after she’s just mashed up a dinner of pasta, tomato, peas, broccoli cheese and nectarine (not actually all in that order… pudding sometimes starts half way through the meal!). And now she’s leaning forwards to reach a toy and passing wind as loudly as ANY adult can… wonder what I fed her for lunch/breakfast…
Chris is at Glastonbury to hang out with lots of people in the craft fields and listen to lots of Radio 4 comedy types (Marcus Brigstocke, Bill Bailey, Mitch Benn, etc etc) and probably watch some of the robot stuff done by the Mutoid Waste Company (look em up!!) Music… well some of it is interesting but much can be overrated… some of the stuff he listens to tend to happens in the smaller tents very late at night/morning… just like the last time I went and found out that Rolf Harris (70yrs old at the time) was playing in one of these tents and was absolutely BRILLIANT… on stage non-stop for 2 hours… not bad going at all especially ).
PS for those of you who’d like to know a bit more detail … Freya is my 9 month old daughter!

Comment from Naomi C
Time: June 27, 2008, 9:52 am

I’m in the library at uni in Tokyo, feeling very sleeping cos it’s so hot and humid in here.
Deciding whether I should take up an offer of going out to eat animals’ internal organs tonight (not at all appealing) or go home (much more tempting).
x x x

Comment from H
Time: June 27, 2008, 4:41 pm

I’m at home and looking forward to a long weekend before a very hectic 10 days stint… got my i/v for the IO post on Wednesday and lots of planning to do in preparation for my big job on 8th. Went to the tarot lady last night with Iain, she informed me where the ring was that I’d lost (which I have obviously now found) and from the first card out picked up that Iain was moving (he’s actually going out to live in Abu Dabi in 2 weeks)! She also said that I’d be going on a trip and that it’d be life changing but now was the right time to do it (the question I was asking as I shuffled the cards was “will I be taking a trip to Cape Town to meet you guys”)! So I’m just about to order a book on Amazon through your site so I can read up! Hope your ear is better now Dave B x

Comment from Scott
Time: June 28, 2008, 10:06 am

Today, like every other spare moment, I will be bashing some hole in a wall or filling one in. This is my ill advised rush to renovate the house before my wife gives birth to Mini White. Who knew the nesting urge would be so strong. In fact, what am I doing, I need to get on it. Love to the pair of you, and many thanks for the coffee. Did you know it was going to arrive on my birthday?

Comment from Mum N.
Time: June 29, 2008, 8:52 pm

Hi both. I’m watching the very delicate repair of one very special giraffe ! There, looks good as new Claire – you would never have guessed that he had dived headlong off your shelf at least 3 times. The power of wood glue is amazing ! Love you . Mum N.

Comment from Bartie Family
Time: June 30, 2008, 9:25 pm

We’re in a cybercafé in los alcazares staring at your blog, you nutter! (andrew)

I love the picture of you and squif in diving gear (mum)

Glad to know your ear’s better, pardon? (dad)

Comment from Bartie Family
Time: June 30, 2008, 9:27 pm

Dad & Mum had something to add:

Went to hotel 525 last night and met dutch barlady and a chap named Leon who commented on the blog post about his friend’s kebab place here. Both sent their regards

Comment from Chloe
Time: July 6, 2008, 10:13 pm

Another thought… when we went traveling (OMG how many years ago now??! Email was only within/between Universities… No such thing as the internet then…) we had to wait until we got to various Poste Restante addresses around the globe… and it was soooo lovely to get letters from folks. We used go to a bookshop, then finger through the Lonely Planet Book of the next country we were going to visit, make sure there was a location where we would definitely be going, then send out this detail on a postcard to our family & friends. (We spend quite an amount on postcards and stamps!) It was worth it. It’s amazing how many words I could get onto a postcard with very tiny writing… Chris could never compete with me with either word count or legibility!