Red Alert!

Well, devotees, I have been very busy the last few days adding more IT skills to my repertoire. I've been learning how to add cool functionality to websites to make them more responsive (and therefore better) for web surfers. This stuff is all the rage now in web development, so I had to tackle it and it has certainly helped pass the time between job applications.

It was all going swimmingly well, until I noticed an intermittant problem (the worst kind!), which resulted in 2 hard days of work and no completely satisfactory solution. Oh, the joys of programming! The only break from the laptop has been the daily constitutional just after 6pm, when the weather has cooled sufficiently.

I've been taking different routes and I've noticed that a lot of the houses have an "open everything" policy. Whatever they have available (windows, doors, gates etc.), they open to let whatever breeze there is, in. Our own place here is well ventilated, having that hole in the wall and a balcony door always open. Because of this policy, you can have a good gawk into the bowels of a lot of ground floor living spaces. I've ascertained that light coloured paint and tiles is by far the most prevelant home decor schemes (for obvious reasons)!

One particular area in the general vicinity has a number of dodgy looking bars in it. I remarked to herself that there seems to be a few suspiciously tarty women hanging around outside them. I was breezily informed that that area is considered something of a minor red light district!

So, it's not all bad here after all!!!!!