It's no fun going to the toilet in the Amazon..

These were the type of wonderful, inciteful observations made by Charlie Bird on his trip up the Amazon. 6 weeks of travel for 1 hour of Charlie moaning about altitude sickness, a 20km/6 hour hike to a bed, toilet troubles and so on.

Awful stuff methinks - an hour of Charlie Bird anxieties.

I never thought that speaking directly to camera was still a technique used by any production company of note for this type of programme......

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CRO Website down

The Companies Registration Office and their IT people seem to be taking their Christmas break early. The site is currently unavailable. The text at www.cro.ie (reproduced below) is very 1990's......

"We are actively working on the problem and hope to have it back as soon as possible. However, it is possible that it will not be back up before Wednesday 20th December."

I love the last bit. Ah shure it will be alright........

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