As a regular traveller, I have discovered first hand the joys of geo-location using IP address which some sites and services use to decide what services can be offered and/or the language they should be presented in. It’s therefore quite useful to have a UK-based system which I can use from anywhere using SSH, and being able to use SSH port forwarding to allow me to use services as though I’m in the UK.
The one thing I had wanted to sort out, and hadn’t quite achieved, was to implement a simple system for keeping an SSH tunnel running, and re-establishing it automatically if it drops.