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Excellent road trip!

Left Friday, picked up Cathryn and drove for the 8pm ferry. Arrived about half-past midnight in Torhout. Felt like we never left - February was yesterday.

The next morning, we were up and ready to de-dread by 10:30.

I'm used to putting them in, so taking them out was a bit of a shock.

All in a good cause though! We've already raised nearly €200 for the Kinamba Project and there's still time to donate.

The music on the video is Maguru by Holy Jah Doves (lyrics). That was Kassim's band in Rwanda - it was a major anthem from our time there, so a very suitable backing track.

Brings back loads of lovely memories.

Had a few musical moments. Doing the bump down the M20 to MC Hammer's Can't Touch This, air guitar to INXS' Never Tear Us Apart on the way there and the way back (only got one radio station in Belgium - and one track...) and Lana Del Rey's Video Games playing whilst we waited for the ferry at Dunkirk...exactly like last time. Creepy song, creepy coincidence.

Totally proud of what we achieved. My biggest fear was that it would be a lot harder to salvage Lies' hair from the dreadlocks and we'd have to cut it really short. But, thanks to there being two of us, and 'evil comb', we managed to do a really good job in not too long a time.

Survived off caffeine, nicotine and donuts, so been catching up on sleep since I got back last night.

Finally returning to writing. Can see the end of my short story collection. Needs a little fine tuning, but I'm proud of it and looking forward to launching it e-side. Will line up some signings later in the year for the others. 

Time consuming stuff. May need to go on retreat again. Possibly not 1,400 miles away this time. Anyone got a closer suggestion?