I watched Road to Guatanamo last night. It's a fascinating first hand account of three (four, orginally, sadly) young British Asians getting caught up in US/British 'War on Terror'. It really exposes the knee-jerk, clumsy nature of the US/UK coalition's reaction in the wake of September 11th 2001 (No I won't call it 9/11, what's so special about November 9th anyhow?).

Following on from my recent (moderate) success at snowboarding, I've been fancying have a go at skateboarding again. I skated loads as a kid, and though my balance was pretty good, I was never much cop as a skater, due to extreme cowardice (neither my shins or my ego could take the knocks).

I haven't skated at all for about ten years (apart from one ill-advised drunken nocturnal session about five years ago.)

We went Snowboarding last week, in Finnish Lapland, (well, I went Snowboarding, Hev went Skiing). IT was great fun, we went with a bunch of old friends of mine, and it was great to spend a week hanging out with them all (and nobody broke anything either - result!)

We had our own chalet between the 8 of us, which had it's own sauna. We drank beer, ate Reindeer (well, some of us) and wandered out onto the nearby frozen lake at night to see the northern lights. We actually saw them one night, which was awesome, Hev took some good photos, maybe she'll post them here at some point.

Hev sent me a link yesterday to the World Beard Championships. I don't know where she found it, (or what she was actually looking for) but it's very interesting, in a niche sort of way...

The page on Beard and Moustache Categories particulalry interested me. I knew there were a few different styles of beard, but I never dreamt there could be quite so many...