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So, I’m now signed up with BE for their ADSL2+ service. Although it can go up to 24Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up, I’m currently getting 7Mbps down and 1Mbps up.

This isn’t too shabby considering that a friend who lives another 100m further down the road is right on the verge of 2Mbps "normal" ADSL.

All in all, service is good so far, everything was working to schedule (in fact earlier than promised); so if you fancy signing up and want a month’s free BE service, contact me (you can do that via the comments) and I’ll send you the relevant refer-a-friend email address to add to your order.

New house

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We’ve now moved across London, back to Canada Water in the hopes of finding peace and quiet.

Good views, two balconies and a garden say we should at least get some respite in the summer :)

 

December in Berlin

Travels

We’ve had a really great week in Berlin, very relaxing, and lots of fun. The pleasure was hightened by the fact that it was nice and warm with working heating and hot water, which is more than can be said of the miserableness of our flat here in London (stupid broken boiler).

At least we did have snow in Berlin, so no need for fake snow flocking on our tree:

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We had Christmas dinner at an exceptionally expensive restaurant (I don’t think I’ve ever spent €300 / £200 on dinner before, although a third of it did go on a single bottle of wine). Food was fabulous; all 7 courses of it.

At the other scale, we have Fritz & Co. (Currywurst and Pommes) in Wittenbergplatz which comes in at an order of magnitude less in price, but (dare I say it) just as nice!

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Apologies

Personal

Huge, huge apologies for the lack of postings (not that this gets read all that much!).

Things have all gotten a bit mixed up of late and I’m trying to take some time out to fix my  head. Stupid brain.

Thank $deity that it’s only 3 weeks until I’m off to Berlin for a bit!

Half way

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Eugh, half way on this blasted polymeric (liquid) diet. No noticable improvement in my Crohn’s symptoms either, in fact, I was pretty badly affected when I dropped my steroid dose down last week. That’s now back up again

I’m taking some time off at the end of this week to try and relax a bit as well. Super stuff.