First saw Grandaddy on Jools Holland singing Hewlett’s Daughter. Helen bought one of their albums, then another, then another. For a while I used a line from Under the Western Freeway as a sig line - it was, ‘everything beautiful is far away‘ - and we even made a detour through their hometown of Modesto, CA as sort of homage, playing ‘El Caminos in the West‘.
I use Firefox, generally. Here’s one place where IE wins - auto-detection of network settings.
Well that was interesting. More to come later but, briefly - Estonia, history of foreign control by Germany, Denmark, etc. Gains independence at end of WWI with help of British fleet, enjoys a couple of decades of freedom, then is occupied by the USSR, then Nazi Germany, then the USSR again.
Freedom attained after the singing revolution and a 600km, 2-million person human chain stretching across Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
Since they can’t stop a man thinking, they take it out on his hide instead.
Travelling beyond the Eurozone make me a little edgy these days. It’s all so comfortable, popping over the Channel. No need to order currency in advance, banks everywhere, everyone accepting the Euro.
