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If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
- Doug Larson

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The art of cooking as practised by Englishmen does not extend much beyond roast beef and plum pudding.
- Pehr Kalm

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I travelled among unknown men,
In lands beyond the sea;
Nor England! did I know till then
What love I bore to thee.
- William Wordsworth

Shrinking

As of 9AM today I'm at 106.4 kg. Wheeeeee!

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Tomorrow I'm off to England. I'm not sure how reliable my internet connection will be there, so I've put in 3 weeks of quotes to be on the safe side. Enjoy!

Every great decision creates ripples - like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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Well, some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
- Maria Edgeworth

All set for Engerland

Right. I'm pretty much all set for my trip to Engerland on Tuesday. I've even gone so far as to purchase a Satnav device, bringing me screaming and kicking into the 21st century. The satnav thingy has "easy" in the name so I figured it would be simple enough that even a technophobic eejit like yours truly can use it. If I haven't smashed it to pieces in a fit of idiocy-induced rage by the time I get back I might even get a touchphone sometime within the next decade or so.

I've planned this trip to pieces, like I normally do. Planning is at least half the fun of traveling and I've got a pretty tight program for most of the days; mainly English Heritage sites, but also some other properties. The hotels are booked, but I'm still open to suggestions about sights to see.

Final schedule:

9/27 Landing at Gatwick, staying in Crawley
9/28 Crawley - Canterbury
9/29 Canterbury - Dover
9/30 Dover - Hastings - Battle
10/1 Hastings - Pevensey - Lewes - Chichester
10/2 Chichester - Shanklin
10/3 Isle of Wight
10/4 Shanklin - Lymington - Salisbury
10/5 Salisbury - Stonehenge -Exeter
10/6 Exeter - Dartmoor - Plymouth
10/7 Plymouth - Fowey - St Mawes - Falmouth
10/8 Falmouth - Truro - Falmouth
10/9 Falmouth - Lizard - Penzance
10/10 Penzance - Land’s End - St Ives
10/11 St Ives - Tintagel
10/12 Tintagel - Ilfracombe
10/13 Ilfracombe
10/14 Ilfracombe - Chester
10/15 Chester
10/16 Chester
10/17 Chester - Coalville
10/18 Coalville - Arundel
10/19 Arundel - Crawley
10/20 Flying out from Gatwick

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How pleasant it is to have money!
- Arthur Clough

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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
- Benjamin Franklin

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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
- Kin Hubbard

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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
- Albert Camus

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
- Aphra Behn

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Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
- H.L. Mencken

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A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
- H. L. Mencken

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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- H. L. Mencken

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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
- H. L. Mencken

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
- H. L. Mencken

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
- H. L. Mencken

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This week is Mencken week. Since today is local election day in Norway, we'll start with this one:

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H.L. Mencken