G'morning. Christina's off in France for a few weeks, so we're taking over the Gleanings airwaves. Today's ditty, compiled by Matt Jones, is the first in a series of guest-edited Gleanings. Enjoy. And happy Monday to you.

-- Noel Franus (mail noel at carboniq.com)

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Hi it's me ... hey ... over here ... past the wet thing ... yeah ... that's

right ... NO ... too far ... that's denmark ... back you come ... right ... HI!

welcome to London. I'm Matt, and i'm your host for this hideously UK-centric

edition of gleanings. Lots of good folk and good work over here which I

thought you might be interested in, and if you haven't got summer vacation

plans, or fancy a change of scenery; then some of this might inspire you to

come over to Blighty (it really ISN'T full of disease ridden animals,

honest...)