In between work, I’m having to scrape together my remaining free minutes and seconds and mould this time into some usable space. With a number of projects racing along at once, and meetings here and there (one this morning in Birmingham), organising my international travels is having to be done in slices.

I went to the surgery yesterday to find out about injections, and despite arriving an hour early, the nurse was able to see me straight away (which prevented much frustration on my part).

It turns out I’m going to be dodging malaria, yellowfever, rabies, hepatitis B and encephalitis. Nice. Thankfully all other diseases are covered by my existing jabs, but the ones named above all come with a price tag tied to the needle. Malaria and yellowfever are manageable, but the other three apparently are a rather weightier £100 each. At that cost, I may just take my chances and avoid taunting any rabid dogs I happen to see.

I am worried that I am on the verge of a purchase breakdown. For some reason, I’ve got that buying itch, and my wishlist includes a Mac (woah, tres expensant), a bigger hard drive for my Macbook, some live saving immunisations, some flights to other countries (it’s just dawned on me that it’ll be six new countries I visit this year), some carbon neutralisation (of all things) and a couple of trips to see friends. I need restraint and I need it quickly before I get anywhere near eBay which has been proven to trigger these types of sprees in the past.

Swan phoned me earlier, as did Devito and Sam. Swan is still jobless, enjoying the company of Mike and his alcohol in Lufbra. Devitio is still terrorising the Spanish and Sam was in her office making the most of free calls. Sean text me at 8am and asked if I had got around to decorating his CV. Funnily enough, I hadn’t.

If you are near a computer at the moment, Gaz has finally launched his site . He started building it in 1996 and now it’s ready for you to look at. Good job Gaz.