The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley. I expected to be on a train to Berlin Hauptbahnhof, family in tow, right about now; this to be swiftly followed by four days of swanning around the capital of Germany, visiting museums, eating in nice restaurants, seeing friends and doing all the usual tourist stuff. Instead I am staring at the screen of the monitor in my office in the (admittedly delightful) city of Prague musing on the vagaries of life. How did it come down to this? Yesterday, Nurgle struck down my son Dan with some sort of horrible gastric lurgie. It's nothing life-threatening but it requires bed rest and a lack of travel. I am glad it was nothing worse. And it does mean I have more opportunities to work this week (oh … [Read more...]