Thank fcuk we won - otherwise the car would have looked really stupid.
Yes, it’s photo-blog-stuff today because I’m feeling lazy (ok, actually I’m quite busy and don’t have loads of time to write), but here’s what the TankMobile looks like when a Brit 4,000 miles from home attaches Eng-er-Land flags all over it.
Thanks to Adrian [...]

I kid you not - this one really is called “Oh Henry!” - a delightful name!
More peanut, more caramel, and more chocolate! <homer>“Mmmm… chocolate”</homer>
And this time it was recorded all for a future podcast, so you can hear me & Leigh reacting to it as we eat it. Let’s just say it was delicious, [...]

Hurdle, hurdle, hurdle … and I jumped them all.
Welcome to possibly my best week here so far. Actually, it was just Thursday that appeared to be a spectacularly good day. Here’s why:
1) I got paid some money. Thanks to the guys at WideSpreadAccess and Charleston Tech Support for providing me with my first pukka [...]

“The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself”. Cheers Baz. Good advice, ou quoi?

… which is why I’m staying inside.
Ok, so it’s still a tropical storm - no hurricane expected here, but after six weeks of sunshine and high twenties/mid eighties temperatures, it now looks as if it’s going to rain solidly for the next day all thanks to Alberta Alberto.
And because I wanted to share it all [...]

This won’t be exciting for any Charlestonians at all, and I guess after this one or the first couple it’ll have less of a novelty value for me as well, but the first hurricane of the season is here … and heading my way!
Actually, that’s a bit of a lie, because Alberto (as it’s been [...]

Or… “How to do the World Cup when 4,000 miles from home”
One: Hang up a flag. Hey, if Americans can put a stars and stripes outside the front of their house all year round (like our neighbour does), then I see no reason why I can’t hang up the St. George’s cross for the [...]

“So you’d like to enter out great country then would you?”
“Ummm, yes please.”
“Well we’re going to have to put you through a whole series of tests including a medical exam, take your finger prints, hell we’d probably implant a GPS tracking device into all our citizens if we could legally get away with it so [...]

This is not for the faint hearted, or for those that have surfed here for a trivial piece of Geofftech nonsense if you only have two minutes to spare in your day. Yes, it’s one of those type of posts people. You know the score, you have been warned, etc …
I had an [...]

Random fact of the week I discovered: On average - 20,000 people in America are murdered each year.
My favourite quote of the week: “There are four seasons in Charleston - Summer, summer, summer and Christmas”.
Sudden thing I realise you don’t get here: Birds chirping in the trees in the morning. I miss that.
Still, it’s pissed [...]

Mention the word ‘Hurricane’ to any southern Englishman over a certain age, and they’ll probably tell you where they were that night in October 1987 when Michael Fish’s famous forecast failed to predict the Hurricane-like conditions that battered the UK almost twenty years ago. (Somebody really should capture it and put it up on YouTube).
Mention [...]