This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
In a previous life I used up a passport every couple of years. I remember one particular year in the early 80s, when anyone travelling overseas could claim back their income tax for each day they spent away from the UK, I managed to claim back for 266 days! Since those days, I have only [...]
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After spending a couple of weeks in India this video looks normal. For those who have never been there, this will give you some idea of a normal day on the streets for a car driver….
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Check out the details of our flat for sale in Cowes. It looks so good in the pictures I might even bid for it myself! Got to extract the digit now and get down to some serious house hunting otherwise we’ll end up homeless!
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Over the past few years, we have had very few problems with WightCable, shame about their website though! Unfortunately, since returning from our travels the net connection has been very poor and last week we were left with no net access at all for a couple of evenings and most of Friday. Things have got [...]
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The photos of our recent trip to India have now been sorted and resized etc. They are all available here. I think they give a pretty fair record of the trip although, according to Sue, there are rather too many coconut trees in there! I did cheat a little with a few pictures on the [...]
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Well here we are then, safely back at home and well on the road to recovery! Unfortunately now I seem to be mending, Sue is suffering with a bad throat and a cold – must be the weather eh? Planes aren’t the healthiest places to spend 12 hours so I suspect that is what got [...]
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So much for my boast that neither of us had been struck down with anything nasty. Unfortunately I have been pretty bad for the last two days, nothing to really worry about, just a bit inconvenient. Anyhow that’s all clearing nicely now though thanks to the good Doctor Alfred and his magic pills. On the [...]
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Back in Chennai early this morning after our trip to Casa Deep Woods in Massinagudi. We left for Mysore on Monday last and after a 12 hr overnight train journey we reached Mysore. After a little wait, our car finally arrived and we experienced the 2 hr journey up into the National Parks around Massinagudi. [...]
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OK a bit more news. Yesterday morning we visited the old fort area of Chennai, this was the starting point of the city and today houses a lot of the government buildings and law courts etc. There is also a warren of narrow streets which form a series of specialised markets, fruit, paper goods, vegetables, [...]
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