Just back from a sunny few days on the Isle of Man. Quite a nice, relaxing time, except everything is shut until Easter. Castles, railways, trams, everything. The B&B was OK except for the rancid kipper smell but it had a DVD player in the room, which I've never comes across before. Gave me the chance to brush up on a few magic tricks, but not many as I could follow how James Brown was doing them but was nowhere near being able to do them myself.The IoM was sunny and breezy, just how I like it. And expensive! Still, the buses were reasonable, as was the quality of the pub grub so I wandered around the island a bit and took it easy. The way back took longer than expected as the ferry had been diverted to help another vessel in distress but by tea time I was back in the Broadbottom drizzle. Down to London with Pops tomorrow.
One thing I noticed on the IoM was there was only one person I'd call at all cheerful. Scary.