Tonight was board game night, although this meant “serious” board games rather than the traditional fare such as monopoly. I’d only once or twice played board games like this so it was a fairly novel experience, although one that was great fun.

Despite playing for several hours I only actually played one game (albeit several [...]

Today I was given a BlackBerry as my phone has failed to function on the funny US frequencies. As some people know I have previously abhorred the concept of a smartphone and I haven’t really changed my mind. On the one hand I will now stop getting lost (it has a GPS) but on the [...]

After waking up uncharacteristically early (I’m not yet entirely adjusted to the time difference yet), I headed into town on the bus, which was apparently very frequent (twice an hour). It went very slowly, it took nearly half an hour to cover just under four miles.

The first task of the day was to cash [...]