Go west!

The soundtrack today is In the Court of the Crimson King. I hadn't listened to this album - really listened - for best part of 20 years. Can't understand why - it's incredible.

Anyway, last time up I promised you some introductions.

Hello.

I'm Adrian.

During the week, I am Number 8 Web Management. I look to help small and medium size businesses make the most of their web presence. One of the reasons for this blog is to illustrate just how useful it is to find a place where you can still send out your message, but you can switch to a conversational tone and kick off your shoes a while. I mean, I've told you what music I'm listening to right now and have explained my business within a couple of paragraphs and when I read it over - yep, it looks okay.

At weekends this time of year you will find me at the Recreation Ground in Bath or occasionally at whichever ground the blue, black and white is being worn in combat. And that, my dear readers, is what brings a Geordie born former Londoner to the West. Rugby.

Bath had been our weekend bolt hole for some time - a fantastic place to come to get away from London for a weekend. And then something really strange happened. We went to the rugby - Bath versus West Hartlepool sometime in the late nineties. Something clicked into place. Suddenly, our weekends away started to follow the fixture list and then we discovered our London location gave us easy access to several away fixtures. And then, after the near disaster of not being able to get tickets for a home game with Wasps, we admitted our rugby problem and bought our first season tickets. But we were still in London ...

People said 'You can't move house just because of rugby!'. Actually, you can. But in truth, it wasn't just about rugby by then. Over the years we had found, and been welcomed into, a friendly and supportive community to the point where we knew more people in our 'weekend city' than we did at home. So here we are - loving life in the West Country.

If I have one concern, it's what my hybrid Geordie/West Country accent will sound like in a couple of years ...

More soon.