Getting ready to spend yet ANOTHER night at the farm waiting for 2 mares who are 2 WEEKS OVERDUE! Will be SO glad when foals come! HURRY UP!
Survived yet another stormy night sleeping on the floor waiting for mares to foal! Looking 4wd to foals arriving, rain stopping & my own bed
My Icey mare survived surgery & is doing well. Waiting to hear from the lab if the tumor is benign or if we need to remove the bigger tumor!
Helping the vet do surgery on my rare Icelandic mare, Otra - we're removing a tumor about the size of a tennis ball! Looks benign.
Doing foal watch again tonight with my favorite mare Libby, sleeping in the sawdust in the stall with her while this storm blows up outside
Getting ready to go on the air with Maurice Boland on TalkRadioEurope in Spain.
Saying good-bye to my parents as they head home to Indiana. It was great to see them again for a few days.
Up and at 'em... Slowly. My parents are passing thru today. I can't wait to see them and show them the new foals!
Mending fences on a sunny but cold morning. Horses loose that need to be corraled.
Exploring Ave Maria Grotto on my way home. Driving by on beautiful day, might as well stretch my legs & finally check it out!
Had a wonderful night out with new friends after a GREAT Upward show last night in Anniston AL. Another standing ovation! Great folks!
Just going onstage for tonight's show at Hill Crest Baptist in Anniston. Great ctowd! It's showtime!
Just had our 3rd foal about 2 mins ago! Stylish Steed just had a beautiful bay colt. Now to get him cleaned up, on his feet & into a stall.
Just landed in Huntsville! Have been up for over 23 hours straight! Bort är bra men hem är bäst! There's no place like home! Now home to bed
On my final flight and ready to finally head the last leg home to see my beautiful wife for the first time in weeks! Yeay!
Just landed in Charlotte NC USA after a 9+ hour flight! Now through Immigration, then a 5 hour layover, then the final trip home! Yeay!
Getting settled on the plane for my 1st flight (9.5 hrs), 5hr layover, & then home! Can't wait to see my wife in only 17 hours! Long day!
What a morning! Up predawn, ran 20 mins with luggage to Tube: Station closed for 1/2hr! Next train line closed! Finally on train to Gatwick
Up at 5:30am to pack and take trains out to Gatwick airport for flights home. Still got sore throat, sinus infection, & no voice! Home soon!
Enjoying my final dinner in London- Shepherd's pie, mashed potatoes, & sticky toffee pudding! Delish! Now home to pack for an early flight
Driving past Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Parliament, 10 Downing Street, Trafalger, changing of the guard, & all the famous London landmarks
Am enjoying La Clique in London with my friend @markaaronjames from Nashville. He doesn't see any use in Twitter. Add him and show him!!
Having Quatro Staggione pizza at Italian restaurant in London after our final show - Went GREAT! Great audience, best show ever! Now relax!
Looking for a bite to fill my belly before doing interviews with Reuters TV followed by our final sold-out show tonight at Imperial College.
On our way to London for our final show at Imperial College tonight - SOLD OUT! And interviews with Reuters TV! What a great trip it's been!
Packing up to head back to London. Sore throat and sinus infection are very bothersome today.
Enjoying a delicious Indian dinner with 7 other Ig Nobel Laureates in Glocester. Great end to a very memorable day!
Witnessing a very rare tidal wave on the Severn River near Gloucester UK one of only a few places this happens on earth on rare occasions.
At our Hewlett Packard show in Bristol. Mixup: We thot 6pm show, arrived 5:15. They thot 5pm show, so a packed audience has been waiting!
Just arriving in the coastal port city of Bristol. Got to find hotel, change clothes and get to venue for our show tonight.
After swallowing swords at Stonehenge, had a delicious non-steel meal at "Rose & Crown". On way to Blackbeard's home town of Bristol now.
So a sword swallower, a Jew, and 2 Dutchmen with a duck are standing in front of Stonehenge... Sounds like a joke. What's the punchline?
Arriving in medieval city of Salisbury - HUGH cathedral juts out of the city and impressively high into the sky like tower of Babel!
Just finished a delicious full breakfast and an interview with BBC Radio Essex. Leaving the ships and docks of maritime port city Portsmouth
Just did an interview with BBC Radio Bristol about tonight's show. Still got sore throat and sinus infection. Time for breakfast & COFFEE!
Just had a delicious dinner with new friends and sword pullers in Portsmouth.
Checked into my hotel in Portsmouth, & heading to tonight's show venue. Hope to find a wheel to replace the very FLAT tire on my suitcase!
Great feature in today's London Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160804/The-4-000-year-old-art-hard-act-swallow.html
Packing to catch an early train all the way down to London and then beyond down to Portsmouth in the south.
Finished with a packed-house show in Newcastle (GREAT CROWD!) and packing up for an early train all the way down to Portsmouth in the south!
Photos from Oxford on Saturday:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgchamberlin/sets/72157614951566133/

Having breakfast with Cirque du Soleil performers at Hol Inn Newcastle. Malaria fever has subsided. Feeling better & ready for a busy day.
Just slept 15 hours! Feeling better today. Hungry for breakfast, then mtngs & interviews before tonight's show at Newcastle Centre for Life
Eating fish 'n chips Marc brought me so I don't have to go out in the cold! Nice. Heading back to bed. Might try to find chicken soup later.
Just talking with Cirque du Soliel who is staying at the same hotel as we are in Newcastle. They might come to our show tomorrow night!
Woke up with bad sore throat and sinus infection. Got to pack & catch train all the way up to Newcastle, several hours north near Scotland.
Inspecting the famous Oxford bell at Oxford Univ - set up in 1840 with an early primitive battery that still works & keeps on tickin'!
Just arriving in Oxford with the mad scientist and the founder of the Ig Nobels.
Heading out to Oxford with a mad scientist and the founder of the Ig Nobels http://bit.ly/cozMm
Waiting at the Cambridge station to catch my train back to London for meetings and interviews.
Eating a proper English breakfast (w bangers & porridge) at Corpus Christi Hall like Hogwarts Hall w 40' ceilings & stained glass windows!
Glad I'm not drving on the left here in UK! Foreign Drivers Face Steep Traffic Fines in Britain: http://tinyurl.com/bektbd
Finishing a long day of 4 interviews and 2 performances at Cambridge. Enjoying my B&B medieval stone dorm room in Cambridge Corpus Christi.
I'm staying in the coolest room at Corpus Christi College at Cambridge! It's like a B&B in an ancient stone dormitory like castle! Way cool!
Just getting off the train at Cambridge. Beautiful day in a beautiful old academic city!
Just finished another interview on BBC, now heading to the Guardian to meet with the editors, then grab a train to perform at Cambridge.
Sword swallower Dan Meyer explains how he got hooked - BBC Audio Slideshow: http://tinyurl.com/blq3s9
Just performed in the Ivy Club, THE top A-list restrnt/club in London where Angelina Jolie & Paris Hilton go. Pers Morgan was downstairs! Ha
Enjoying listening to a cool "Gypsy Kings" type salsa cumbia band at the renowned Club Ivy in London. GREAT band!
Very difficult to Twitter here in the UK. Why? Always walking (& chewing gum!) doesn't work, & when I sit on the Tube, NO connectivity!
Hope my wife and friends in Alabama are enjoying the snow! Happy Anniversary from London!

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