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My home web connection seems to have withered with disuse over the last week, so I'll keep this short:

Fab hols. Kthxbye!

it's a bit Gaudi

BRC

Phew. I just came down that lot.

Barcelona is a bit damp but great fun. Tranny spotting count has hit 4 already, without even trying. On arrival we popped into Burger King for a McWee (or whatever the Burger King equivalent is - a BK Slash?) and saw three, separately. Barcelona is just that kind of place. Which is just one of the reasons I love it. :-)

Ou est le singe?

By the wonder of the interwebs, a map of where i'm blogging this from. Just spent some time in the ape house in the Menagerie de Jardin des Plantes. They'd got several varieties of monkey, but not, alas, the famous Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey. I tried to get Jane to ask a park keeper where they were, but she refused. Spoil sport.

BRB

Hello!

Still here, just suffering a little from bloggers block. These are the things keeping me occupied at the moment:

Houses We're days away (hopefully) from putting two houses on the market. Jane's is finally in a sellable state (rather than just being in a state) and my place is as uncluttered as it's ever going to be. Last Wesnesday we had three estate agents visit in one day, which was a bit of trial, but we survived! They all gave us a similar price, and the good news is the bottom hasn't dropped out of the market (yet!) especially for first-time-buyer properties like ours.

In fact the recent down-turn is relatively good news, smaller places are still selling, and there's more of a buyer's market for the kind of properties we're looking to move in to. So, finger's crossed!

World of Warcraft Obsessed by it, at the moment. If you're even vaguely interested, I'm playing a Rogue on Argent Dawn, and I've just bought my first epic mount. Woot!

Er, yeah. Anyone still reading?

Barcelona We're off this weekend! Really looking forward to it, especially the overnight sleeper train from Paris, it's just going to be so romantic and special.

Bye for now!

Transvestites fight to take back their name

Residents of Transvest (an island in the Black Sea just off the coast of Hungary) have mounted a legal challenge to stop what they perceive as a smear against their proud heritage.

"I'm a Transvestite and proud of it," said Hadik Tivadar, Mayor of Transvest. "My father was a Transvestite, and so was his father. They never wore an item of feminine clothing in their life! But these men who dress up as woman and call themselves transvestites, they degrade our good name!"

The use of the word transvestite as a label for men who dress up in women's clothing dates back to the 7th Century BC, when Transvest was the home of crossdressing poet Zrínyi Sissí. He wrote of his love of putting on ladies' things, and the name Transvestite became synonymous with the practice.

A sample of Sissic Poetry (circa 630 BC)
A vision came of Aphrodite,
I must admit, I liked her nightie.

Associations with crossdressing isn't just troubling the mayor. In Llády (the capital of Transvest) the Headmaster of the local boys school is also up in arms.

"When I go to international headmaster conventions and tell them I look after the Llády Boys School, I'm laughed at!" he said.

A spokesperson from the neighbouring island of Räving Bénder was unavailable for comment.

On the move

The move observant among you may have noticed that BeckysWeb has been a little rough around the edges recently. Basically anything with a link to Flickr has stopped working properly, including my home page and even dear old Flickr Sudoku.

I'll save the latest rant about FastHosts technical "support" for another day, suffice it to say that this site is changing hosts. You won't have to change your bookmarks or anything, but you might have to put up with some additional broken-ness while all the little bits of my site get wrapped in newspaper, carefully labelled with meaningful titles such as "miscellaneous bollocks, 2006 to present" and shipped off to their new home.

I'm off to shout at FAQs about DNS settings until they stop being deliberately all complicated. Wish me luck!

[Update: well that seems to have been relatively painless! HostingUK have been very efficient and BeckysWeb is now ensconced in a new home. It will take a while for the change of address to propagate worldwide, but if you're reading this on my site then you've come to the new address.]

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My quickest Becky transformation EVAH. :-)