Heading on a wee excursion

I begin by greeting the small fanbase I seem to have aquired in Uruguay*. I'm not sure if the 0.87% of my readership who come from that random South American land alighted here intentionally or by accident, but hi there, you know who you are (I would presume, unless you ended up there after a very very drunken night, in which case, you'll quicly realise who you are once you get arrested) and keep reading. Also, don't attack Paraguay, they deserve better.



Officially term is about to end, but I'll be here in the Exe doing dissertation for a couple of weeks yet. Happily, it seems, so will quite a few others, though sadly not everyone. I've handed in my last essay of term and given my room a sort of spring clean (it'll get a better one next week) so all is well.



This weekend I'm off to Northern Ireland,, Limavady to be precise - along with Hazel, Steve and Rebecca, I'm staying on Gladys' potato farm (or rather her Dad's..she seems to want nothing to do with it, which is a mystery because potatoes are truly fascinating. ;-)) We're going to be joined by various other members of STEP team Peru summer 2005 to see Kirsty (our leader on said trip) get married in Belfast to a fantastic sounding man named Derek and thus aquiring for herself a very long and complex Polish surname. I'd imagine, knowing Kirsty, it is the culmination of a childhood dream.



To add to the excitement, it's forecast to snow quite a considerable amount while we're there, and since Devon has afforded us absolutely none of the white stuff this year, I feel a strange sense of deserving about it all. I'm sure there'll be photos to follow and a report into the state Northern Irish potato farming (and possibly farmers as well) next week. In the mean time, today's reminiscing photo was taken almost exactly a year ago, and depicts Tim, James and LHD striding across a snowy Dartmoor.







*In case you're wondering I use a counter to log where people who visit come from. Don't worry though, I don't know who you are, I just know that most of you are British and use Internet Explorer.