See that white bit on the top of the mountain?  That’s the water.  Obviously the clouds are, as well, but other than that there’s not a great deal of the stuff around. This, for those who don’t recognise it, is Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania/Kenya.  To do the “Coca Cola” route takes 4 days to climb…

I’ve been very lucky since I met my wife.  I’ve travelled a heck of a lot more than I perhaps would have otherwise.  We’ve been to the roof of Africa (and a fair few other bits of it), the frozen north (all right, a beer festival in Estonia during August but it would’ve been frozen…

There exists, somewhere, a photograph of my grandparents (on my father’s side) on their wedding day.  It’s a fairly grainy black and white shot but I remember scanning it in.  Grandad’s in uniform, Grandma’s in a fairly simple dress.  I cannot, for the life of me, find this photo.  I know it’s on the computer…