No ;-) Just virus. Fighting it off well, but it gave me earache and toothache. Oh the daftness!
BTW, I am traipsing through your itinerary and trying to think of cool, cheap suggestions, seemed more useful than general squeeage ;-)
I think it could have been 1990 that was the good year. Berlin was reunified, Solidarity won the Polish elections, the Singing Revolution happened in the Baltics and was not shot down, Nelson Mandela was freed, the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from its list of diseases, Tim Berners-Lee came out with the World Wide Web, Mary Robinson became the first president of Ireland, Margaret Thatcher resigned and the Chunnel opened.
Admittedly there were still the odd poll tax riots, the fucking IRA, John Major, a few political assasinations in north and west Africa and Iraq did invade Kuwait, but that was dealt with by the UN at the time and only went postal at the US's behest in early '91, but still, not a bad year on the whole.
I think your old best friend on the internet might be Shiv's perfect man. And you and I can grouch together!
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Date: 2008-08-12 10:26 am (UTC)BTW, I am traipsing through your itinerary and trying to think of cool, cheap suggestions, seemed more useful than general squeeage ;-)
I think it could have been 1990 that was the good year. Berlin was reunified, Solidarity won the Polish elections, the Singing Revolution happened in the Baltics and was not shot down, Nelson Mandela was freed, the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from its list of diseases, Tim Berners-Lee came out with the World Wide Web, Mary Robinson became the first president of Ireland, Margaret Thatcher resigned and the Chunnel opened.
Admittedly there were still the odd poll tax riots, the fucking IRA, John Major, a few political assasinations in north and west Africa and Iraq did invade Kuwait, but that was dealt with by the UN at the time and only went postal at the US's behest in early '91, but still, not a bad year on the whole.
I think your old best friend on the internet might be Shiv's perfect man. And you and I can grouch together!