I must say I am impressed, heartened even, by flicking back here on the off-chance and seeing the lovely vote scores and page views have gone up even in my lengthy absence; you really are too kind.

Now, to the real business now I've kissed your arses a bit, if you want to see how things are going on, and read more of my twitterings, then again I am gonna plug my new blog at http://versive.blog.co.uk

This is nothing personal against the venerable Arnies, of course, I just need a site that can be accessed by all without signing up or signing in, and that isn't tied to our favourite sport.

It's much the same stuff as always without the manufacturer and item reviews and opinions, and instead of skirmish mishaps I am having, at the moment, Asian mishaps on the Indian subcontinent.

I have been here now for almost 10 weeks and have been to 6 or 7 towns, although admittedly most of them were beaches and I simply got wasted and had the odd silly scrape with the local cops, but it has been good clean fun (well, mostly) all round and, now I ahve the pictures all up and online you can see some of the rather splendid stuff that's passed before my heavily glazed eyes.

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