Burrrrminham!!

I'm in Birminghan at the moment for the Autumn Fair expo.... Really well organised, very professional, generally really good... But ( and I'm going to rant again, but hey!, are you surprised?!) I'm staying in the Holiday Inn near the airport... They've a smoke ( cig ) machine here in the lobby. Now where I come from, we think smokes are a rip-off at 7 Euro.. Here they charge GBP7.40 a pack (which is what?.. 10 or 11 Euro a pack?!..) and the worst thing is A: the exchange rate means I'm paying the best part of 10 squids for a pack..but then B: the bastards have the audacity to have just 16 smokes in a box!!! Unreal... I always thought the Irish were a bit extreme on the smoking thing but now I have to say, the Brits have beatin' us!!

So, apart from that, all is going well.. F went home this avo which kinda felt (no, actually felt..) weird and depressing...I was left all on my own, but more to the point, I felt like I'd lost the functional part of my brain... F is a really good sense-check to have around.. He knows the stuff we're meant to see and also keeps tags on how long we spend in each place. If it was up to me, we'd be flying the demo helicopters all day :-) I do love them though...... (and apart from that, I wish he was here anyway...)

So, I have one more day here and then home (TG!). I really think Christmas and the start of the New Year are going to be a bitch... but, you know what, I am having a ball... I'd prefer to be up to my goolies in stress and exhaustion doing what I'm doing now, rather than doing what I was doing before..

Right - up early in the morning.. So off to bed.

Talk to you soon -

Fred