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[zotz]

The weekend was stellar. I´ll probably drone on about it later. First, though, a couple of interesting news items - at the end of this year Britain will finally finish paying off our war loans from the US, and the High Court has said that the Chagos islanders can go home. Result! (Or, at least, Result! pending the inevitable appeal). Oh, and HMG´s finally calling for the Guantanamo camp to be closed. Not going to happen, but nice to hear it said.

While I´m here, does anyone know how to turn off dead keys (the method of mapping extra characters to a standard keyboard rather than any other use of the phrase) under debian (etch, gnome)? I be grateful. It´s annoying me.

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[zotz]

The drive back was fine, yes, although the rain was ferocious in Bedfordshire .

I had the plates with me because I was meaning to take them to be used . . . but I left them behind.

[kixie.livejournal.com]

MEh, we can save them for our next party or something, I guess. I always get plastic cups and whatnot for parties.

It did rain a lot the day you left. What way do you take to Edinburgh, btw? Is it shorter than the M1/M6/A31 (32?) route?

And! Have you had the chance to listen to the cds I gave you? I'm curious! Also, bored (if you hadn't noticed) at work.

[zotz]

I went onto the Holloway Road and turned left. It goes straight to Edinburgh, in about eight hours including a meal break.

I haven´t listened to the CDs yet. Must do so, though. Just not immediately, as I have to go out shortly.

[kixie.livejournal.com]

WIth your speedometer under three digits? COol. I commented that it seemed utterly stupid to go and get the M6 up the west side of the country only to have to take another road to go back east. Hm. I shall mention this.

Let me know when you've had a listen and what you think n' all that!

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I was trying to figure out what the *hell* you were doing driving through Lancashire on a London-Edinburgh road trip, and decided that you didn't really mean "Lancashire" but rather "somewhere up north".

[kixie.livejournal.com]

No, we meant Lancashire. And Cumbria.

Muffin is very prehistoric with directions sometimes.

[zotz]

It does seem logical to stick to motorways as much as possible over that sort of distance, so on paper the M1/M6 looks like the obvious route. To East central Scotland, though, I tend to use the A1. It's a pretty good road, and makes up in directness what it loses by not being entirely motorway-standard.

[kixie.livejournal.com]

I always wondered whey they didn't just continue the M1 up there...is the A1 a continuation of the old Roman road?

And yes, it is direct. I thought it was stupid to go north, west, north, east.