MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I thought long and hard (I lie..5 mins) to decide > where in the UK to celebrate Jubilee weekend. > Scotland. Spent today in sunshine on River North > Esk fly fishing - not a soul for miles, fresh > salmon in the river and kingfishers, woodpeckers > and an otter. Blue skies and hit 18c here tonight. > Just got back to find some rainy barge thing on > telly, Gary Barlow and hysterical women draped in > damp union jacks. It looked like my worst > nightmare. "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like 'I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive . . .' And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming, 'Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?'