Howdy.

Again sos for the hiatus, I've been busy getting myself a new arsehole ripped by the french. That over, I can now poo at twice the speed although sphicter control has sufferred somewhat. It wasn't great to start with so take care standing near me in a croud unless I lose comlpete control and explode in a cloud of poop like some suicide turd bomber.

Cheers for the beard comments. Rich; the amish is a fun beast, mine was quite well behaved and allowed me to experiment with some pretty radical lamb choppage under cover of a "beard". Of course the trouser department must be prioritised so I sympathise with you there.

I assume anonymous is Dunc; I recall that he does shave his legs but am not sure he's ever completely bought into the back-sac-and-crack crowd.

Off back to Honkers today. Smudge and Jules have been superb hosts and I can report that Sparky is alive and without the gimp costume (in public at least). Sunday lots of people (like, 30,000 of the fuckers) went jogging past smudge's gaf, twice, so we repaired to the pub. Adnams is still good beer and I am still only able to drink 5 pints before getting all giggly and falling over.

Back in the saddle tomorrow, so I'll try an whip up a little something. Meanwhile, Please put some effort into making your own self portraits on the South Park thingy and sending them to me. Rooting through the smudge's email, I see that Rich has managed to do good ones of himself, Sparky and Smudger (and where's Jules...?). Dave and Elv, using their superior computing skills, resorted to printing and scanning theirs. Not good enough boys, Get Dunc involved, he's apparantly a bit of a wiz at 'puters (although he doesn't play games, which is just plain wierd for a computer nerdy).

Speaking of computer games and Bubble is off on hols (again?! I hear you cry) so I have a week with the projector screen firmly fixed in place (bubble always insists I put it away when I'm not using it) and GT4 racing glory on the big screen. Also picked up Metal Gear 3, Burnout 3 and rugby game fella in HMV duty free. The rugby in a vain attempt to get bubble playing computer games, as she's turned into quite the rugby fan. I also tried for Lego-Starwars which, while sounding terrible, is reportedly very very good and supports co-operative game play throughout (second player can take control if AI team member at any time for lego fueled hack and slash).

I've so far resisted the temptation of a PSP, as we're actually a bit strapped at the mo, having sent all our hard earned to some canadian developer to make a big hole in the ground.

I'm off to make a big cup of tea and then to pour through all the fantastic car and bike comics I bought in the last week (they're sooo cheap here - well realtive to them being sooooo expensive in HK, anyhoo.)

Oh, job interview went well except they want me to commute to the UK, which is a bit stiff. Currently investigating alternatives on the minimum wage front.

See ya