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Since Sunday we've visited Ardbeg, Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Bruichladdich and Bowmore distilleries, as well as going to a whisky nosing competition & scottish dance, and sampled about 20ish whiskies each. The credit card has taken a battering, however now we've left Islay things should ease off. I HOPE things ease off.
Currently we're sitting in a [...]

…but today as our ferry rounded the south coast of Islay and we nonchelantly passed the Ardbeg distillery, then Lagavulin, then Laphroaig, before mooring at Port Ellen.
I think this whisky tour is going to be fun.

Normally I'd avoid a new version of Windows like the bubonic plague (I think it took at least until the end of 2002 for me to move over to XP), however in light of the fact that my desktop PC melted down and was for all intents & purposes unrecoverable without a reinstall, and also [...]

Once again, The Barbican comes up with the goods. It took a little convincing and good faith on their part, but I dragged Hannah, Paul and new UK arrival Kat along to see one of the world's most extraordinary and talented vocalists, Bobby McFerrin, and the results all round were an enthusiastic twelve thumbs [...]

Went for lunch with K yesterday at a pub in Belgravia. Nothing in particular happened there, but upon leaving the pub and walking around the corner we discovered blue & white “Police Line - Do Not Cross” tape. In hindsight we probably shouldn't have crossed it, but there were no police anywhere to [...]

I'm on a train to Stockholm, having just been allowed into the country wearing these ridiculous trousers.
I'm going to Helen's wedding tomorrow.
Just thought some of you might be interested. If you wanna get a wedding message to her, you've got about 10 hours to do it in.
Fortuitously, at Gatwick I was able to do [...]

Apropos of nothing, back in the mid 1990's (before computers had been invented) I used to write to a lot of people. It was obvious that email was going to be my undoing. However back then it was the Old Fashioned method, involving envelopes, and stamps, and soforth. Like with emails and [...]

OK, so I'm so busy churning over whether to go on eBay and spend a couple of hundred quid on LiveEarth tickets (what could be my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Britain's Loudest Rock Group, Spinal Tap, perform), that I pretty well utterly failed to devote any useful amount of brain power to the following:
I get [...]

Greetings, eager young space cadets!
It seems that Aaron was able to revive the hamster & get it running around in its cage again, and thus restore the miracle of www.jasonbstanding.com to the world once more.
“What in the hell have you been playing at?”, I hear you ask (that could be The Voices though: clear [...]