Random thoughts and observations
I’m planning to walk the Offas Dyke Path from Chepstow to Prestatyn, along the England-Wales border in April or May 2014. I’m interested in blogging about the experience or writing/photographing for a travel magazine.
If anyone would like to engage me commercially for this purpose, please contact me via this website.
I’ve made changes again to my online photo storage. I alternate between wanting to use a third-party service like Flickr and hosting them myself.
It probably makes more sense to use Flickr, because they will stay there indefinitely without costing me anything (although I have a Pro account) and there’s a user community to share and comment on pictures.
I recently reported my passport as lost. The truth is I haven’t seen it for more than two years, but I haven’t been looking for it either. I incorrectly assumed it was in the filing cabinet.
I haven’t been overseas since the former passport was issued in May 2009. I’m unlikely to go overseas anytime soon, but you just never know, I might win Lotto tomorrow.
When you live as close to the beach as we do it may seem strange to drive 82km to a beach, but that’s what we did today.
We went to Middleton on the Fleurieu Peninsula between Goolwa and Port Elliot. We took the Goolwa road from Mount Compass.
The town is mainly holiday homes, as far as I can tell, but apparently it has a permanent population of 818, according to the 2006 census.
While visiting Malawi in 1990, I was detailed by police in Blantyre and questioned about my apparent interest in the country’s then President Hastings Banda. In 1963, Banda was formally appointed as Nyasaland’s Prime Minister, and led the country to independence as Malawi a year later. Two years later, he proclaimed Malawi a republic with himself as president. He consolidated power and later declared Malawi a one-party state under the Malawi Congress Party.
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