I’ve just transferred this blog to a new web host. I expect there to be a few minor teething troubles so bear with me!
Note the URL is now http://blog.timothyfletcher.com instead of http://www.timothyfletcher.com. It will automatically forward for now but I’ll be using www.timothyfletcher.com for other stuff at some point in the future.
Update: You can probably tell that I’m on new hosting by the fact that pages now load lightening fast. Goodbye MediaTemple, hello SliceHost!
Ahhh.. I love Google’s analytics package. It allows me to see all the crazy search terms that have brought wandering web surfers to my site. Here’s a select few:
- Is Tim Fletcher married
- kombodscha ladyboy
- Khao San Road ladyboys
- Tortured ladyboy
- Corporal punishment females prison (?!?)
- Massage by ladyboys in Brighton (My personal favourite)
Through November 2006 until August 2007 I solo backpacked through India, Nepal, Thailand, Burma, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA. Before I left I extensively researched which items I should take and, more importantly, what I could get by without. I wanted to be as mobile as possible and so took only Continue reading…
Here’s the next installation of my travelling recipes!
Panang Curry with Chicken
Ingredients
A few months ago I made a few changes to the blog, one of which was to remove the ‘Recipes of the World’ page, a documentation of the cookery courses I did whilst travelling. Well, I’m putting them back online! Here’s the first - Recipes of India - As Learnt in India from an Indian
Vegetable Masala
Ingredients
Mai-Linh and I keep seeing Regina’s mayor everywhere we go. He cracks me up because I think he looks like the Fonz. Here’s the definitive pic so you can make your own mind up…
Ok, maybe it’s not that close in this pic but TRUST ME, he’s a dead ringer in real life.
Ok, so I’m slack. Since I have a job now it basically means that I don’t get (or make) enough time for writing on my blog. It’s not just this one, my tech blog suffers too and I consider it a bit annoying. Something I need to work on I guess. Anyway, it’s not all forgotten about… Continue reading…
Taken on a recent 620km drive around some tower sites for work
So I’m a little over three weeks into my ‘New Life in Canada’ and anyone that reads this might be interested in what I’m up to and what I think of the Canadian way of life. I’ve been practicing a few Canadian sentences to try and blend in. For example ‘How are yahhh?’ and ‘Yohh, wassupp?’. I guess it’s difficult to appreciate them without hearing so you’ll have to use your imagination. Continue reading…
After sending off far too many pieces of paper and praying I’d not got anything wring, I finally have the document that will allow me to live and work in Canada for 12 months. I’m currently playing the waiting game at home before I take the dog to Kennels (my parents are in Ecuador) and my mate Oberon comes over to give me a lift to Chester. From Chester I get a Continue reading…
I was thinking the other day about why, despite my ‘metric system’ education, I still regularly refer to sizes (and only sizes) in imperial terms. For example, if I wanted to state the thickness of the book I have in front of me now, I would say “about an inch” rather than “about two and a half centimeters”. What is important is that the former of these statements consists of 4 syllables whereas the latter is a hefty 10. Continue reading…
You’d have to be crazy to not have noticed the protests over the last couple of days regarding the China’s policies in Tibet. Opinion is polarised in the UK as to whether it is correct for protestors to use the Beijing Olympics as a publicising vehicle. I say it is just and the reason I cite is a country I visited recently, Burma. Continue reading…
I’ve been experimenting with embedding videos on the blog. Here’s a video I took on my second trip to India with Mai-Linh. This is the ‘holy city’ of Varanasi in the Northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Varanasi is like a microcosm of everything that India is about. Vibrancy, noise, smells, light, religion, animals, filth and, of course, FAR too many people! Continue reading…
As I’m back home for a couple of months I have to deal with the machinations of the family dog. One of his favourite activities is viciously attacking anything that any person should dare to put through the letterbox. Continue reading…
So as I said I’ve built myself a new blog for all my technology musings. All my travelling / life posts will go on here, everything else will be on http://dream.adeli.ca. Make sure you spell it correctly - there’s no www. Continue reading…
