Tired

Mutterings continued.

Slightly headachey. Sore eyes. Too much time in front of the monitor today, me thinks.

Amusing news item: " A BRITISH druid was in court today charged with carrying a ceremonial sword, used for casting spells, while on a shopping trip to a local hardware store.

Druids were the pagan priest class in early Britain, particularly for the Celtic tribes from around 600 BC, and are associated with sacred stone circles such as the famous site at Stonehenge, southwest England.

However, little is known about their activities and modern druids are sometimes dismissed as fantasists with a fondness for dressing up and no genuine link with the activities of the past." The image of a Druid rummaging through the nuts and bolts tickles me - you think that's where they got the equipment for Stonehenge?

And speaking of ancient bits of rock, Ash and I are planning to visit the Orkneys when I'm in the UK. I've been looking at ways to get from Scotland to the islands - there are a number of car ferries that look interesting and leave from ports with names like Caithness, Scrabster and John O'Groats. I've just done a couple of searches on map sites - Expedia and Maporama - and both have different routes and driving times from Middlesbrough to Scrabster. The difference is over 2 hours! Maporama has the amusing note, "Impossible to calculate an itinerary by subway. Maporama suggests the vehicule transport mode."