The Redemption was actually a cock-up on our part: we'd been trying to fix a date with friends to go and do one of Hugh Fearnley-Wotsisname's meat-curing weekends, and I forgot to say, "Don't book the weekend of Redemption..." until after it was booked. Which is a shame, given it would have been a great way of seeing everyone before we went. To 2009!

I spotted about altariel coming free but still haven't got round to getting it. I really do want to get round to getting rid of that annoying 1.