That flash sale sounded awesome it must be said, bit too far away from me to really take advantage of it. Especially with some of the hours I'm doing lately (5am to 5pm on Friday just gone for example) at work, and I'm doing 6 days a week a lot in recent times, just to finance all my world exploration trips. Going to be like that for ages, probably until January and my 2 weeks off. Crikey by the time I get to that I'll not want to go back to work!
So yeah, that's why there's been no real action on my trip report thread for ages, I just haven't really done anything!
I do have a Welsh Pacer farewell trip report to actually type up, that was nearly 2 weeks ago now and I've only got as far as putting the title in it yet. Been binge watching movies and Hell's Kitchen a lot lately when I've not been at work, and as this heap of junk phone I've currently got (my other one was playing up so had to get a basic smartphone for now) can't do split-screen apps like my Samsung phone could, I'm not able to blast out tunes and type up my report at the same time. So there's also been a lack of desire to type it up!
I have also had a few mini-sessions of beer-ticking and IET hunting in recent months as well, but they're hardly worth typing a report for! As for why others of the regular report writing community have been quiet, I don't know. I do believe the honourable gentleman better known as Kite159 is taking a sabbatical from the forum at the moment, but he is very much still very active on the rails.
Anyway, nice to see you're still about and getting bits and bobs scored at the local. Like you I can't afford to do much, but our time will soon be here and we'll both be back with a vengeance! I hope to do my report from that trip to Cardiff at some point this week, and next week I jet off to Budapest for a short break so there will be reports from that too. It will be my first world exploration trip since March, and I'm fighting off Holiday Mode at work! I'm packed and ready to go already, can't wait to be on the 0642 to Paddington next Monday!
I look forward, as always, to hearing more of your adventures soon!