Since I'm trying to avoid doing any work at the moment, and since this blogging is a lot of fun, here's something I've learnt about getting across the channel (english channel that is, even though the french want to call it a sleeve (La Manche), but then as I saw on a comedy thing somewhere, since they've the Riviera and the mediterranean on their borders, why would they care about a little 22 mile wide strip of water on a freezing north coast!):

When you first go to the Eurostar website to buy a ticket, it'll ask you what country/language you would like - you don't have to choose the correct country, as they'll still send out tickets to the right address. I've found that looking at the UK/English site the cheap 'loisir' tickets disappear quicker than if you're using the France/French site.

So, if you can't find the 35 euro tickets on the english page, delete your cookies (which means you'll get offered the language choice again), try again but in french and see if you can now get cheaper tickets.

Apparently it's due to the english and french services having their own ticket allocations, and the english side usually runs out first...