Flat Earth

What is this, another entry in a week, must be losing it. Anyway received an email from a travel buddy last night asking if I knew anybody free to visit Colombia in the winter - nudge nudge hint hint. Sounds good to me, trouble is, Colombia even though it is much safer than it used to be still makes Afghanistan look like a stroll in the park, so I will give it a miss. Yellow bellied chicken shit that I am.

As usual it has been a long time since my last blog entry and it could well be another long time before the next one.

But anyway what has been happening. The company I work for merged (taken over) with a huge Danish company. oads of redundancies, I survived. Work was dead for months and months but now it is totally manic. Another factory was closed, the work came to us. So for once in my worklife things went my way. I'm usually the first out of the door. Nobody was exactly overjoyed when we heard what was to happen as 300 people were to lose their jobs. Never a pleasant thing for anybody, I know it has happened to me more times than I care to remember. And no payrise this year, tight bastards!!!!

So what have I been up to. Had a visit to Finland last summer, around midsummer, gorgeous. Why I left I still don't know. Good to see old friends and family.

Then Panama early this year for some birdwatching and plenty of bugs. Well worth a visit, more expensive than most other places in Latin America but if I can afford it then most folk can.

Where to next? No idea really. Would love to go to Kenya for a walking birdwatching safari. Being stuck in a vehicle for 2 weeks does not appeal at all, hence the walking. If that doesn't happen due to lack of other people wanting to do the same then perhaps a visit to Istanbul for history and bird migration in September. Early days yet :-)

Anybody in need of a job wil be pleased to hear that there will be about 650 vacancies in Westminster soon.

bye for now