i upgraded this bilge to wordpress 1,5 today.  had a few initial hiccups with the first install, which sorted themselves out when i re-installed,  and a fair bit of hacking around was needed to get the layout back to what it was before.  there’s still a bit of tweaking to be done and i havenae [...]

to the opening of college’s new ’space’ at the craft centre tonight.  i collected our spanish visitors from jim’s house in the albatross and dropped them at the craft centre at about a quarter to six.  me and mazza were then entrusted with bar duties for the night, which basically involved keeping the champagne [...]

well, my mission to the airport to collect the visiting spaniards went OK in the end.  this in spite of the fact that the bus we’ve hired [or the 'SS albatross' as she was soon christened] is an unwieldy bugger with all the acceleration and manoeuvreability of an oil-tanker. add to that a supposed ’safety [...]