I’m currently blogging from a GNER train heading south towards London. It’s great stuff it really is. Its fast, hasn’t dropped out once and allows me to catch up on all the bits and pieces I haven’t had a chance to do all day because of being in the pub

My reason for being on the train though is that I’m going home for a few days, and into that I’m building in a short excursion on our boat. We’re setting sail on Friday afternoon, spending the night at an as yet undecided anchorage and then coming back on Saturday afternoon. A short trip, but something I have been looking forward to in the midst of my exams and other course orientated study.

I don’t have much of a break though because I have a load of web based and business stuff that I now need to attend to as I haven’t been doing so during my exams, and also my 2 week C/C++ programming course is starting on Monday, so I need to get myself a text for that and make sure I’m sober on Monday morning!

What started out today as an idea to do the Otley run pub crawl turned into a general drinking session intervleaved with interesting chat and several games of pool at the quilted llama. This was mainly due to the fact that even though I was a whole hour late to the first pub, only 3 others were there already and had thus decided not to move on. As it looked like no one else was going to show for some considerable time, we decided to retreat to the comfort of reasonably priced drinks and comfortable sofas, after all the bar staff know us all by the drinks we order in there by now!

It was still great fun though and more people did join us later. It was certainly worth making the effort for