Only done 581 miles since then. :-(

I must have clocked 20,000 miles this morning without noticing

Nice little film and good to see what Mr. Keates is up to these days ;-)

Danças de lado nenhum

Didsbury Festival

Just paraded through the village in the pouring rain dressed as a Jedi knight, accompanied by daughter №2 (an Ewok).

Most of daughter №2's classmates were Rey. There was much fan theorising over Rey's parentage.

Daughter №2's friends summarised the theories for me. There was a big division between camp 1: Rey is Leia's daughter, and camp 2: Rey is Luke's daughter. (They can't both be true, because eww.)

Rebuttal to camp 2: Jedi (i.e. Luke) had to remain celibate.

Rebuttal to the rebuttal: Luke changed the rules (... or broke them?) when he founded the new Jedi order!

Alternative rebuttal to the rebuttal: Luke gave up being a Jedi to become a father!

I think I've got that right. I don't know. When I say summarised you have to imagine half a dozen 8-year-olds all talking at once.

I love this kind of thing. A glimpse into a parallel time stream. Hope I get a chance to drop in and see it.

Making post-war Manchester: visions of an unmade city

RIP Dave Swarbrick. Fond memories of seeing Carthy and Swarb at a folk club in Hednesford back in the day. Sad news.

Satnav

I have joked that the emergency services wouldn't be able to find you these days without their satnavs. Doesn't seem so funny now.

Cyclist died after three ambulances could not find Olympic velodrome

I once dutifully phoned the fire brigade about a fire on the transpennine trail. Similarly, they couldn't find me. Glad I'm not phoning for an ambulance, I thought :-|

Location accessible by road, and I described how to get there as clearly as I could, I just had no clue what the postcode was.