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    que pasa, NY?

    Well, three days to go now before embarking on this years’ Big Trip (last years being Jersey I suppose, if travel by air is one of the main criteria), and I have spent today happily organising warm clothing in accordance with the weather forecast (desirably and reassuringly chilly) composing ipod playlists and Kindle collections and most importantly, ensuring my ever-glowing…

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    commencing countdown…

    And a belated Happy Valentine’s Day to everybody reading; I was fortunate enough to have much of the day for some remorseless lazing about after enjoying a lovely aromatherapy massage as this month’s treat, and even got an unexpected happy ending upon discovering a slightly misshapen but desirably gym-locker-warm Snickers at the bottom of my bag on the way home.…

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    well, who would have thought it…

    …I’m being sent to Coventry! Well not sent, strictly speaking, but Other Stuff has decreed that I will be in the area mid-April, and since I was planning a return to Nottingham around-about then anyway it seems an ample opportunity to kill two birds with one stone and spend a couple of extra days exploring in the Midlands. I will…