Now, where was I?

I have always wondered how a seemingly thriving blog can just stop mid-flow and never be updated again, without so much as a goodbye-your-leave from the proprietor - the blogosphere is littered with the carcasses of good intentions, efforts that have been sustained for years laid low by a new child or a change of circumstance. I have always wondered how it can just stop, as if in mid-sentence. But now I know.

I'm aware of the not-so-subtle irony in welcoming the New Year by apologetically promising to write more often and then going quiet for five weeks. Silly boy. I do of course hope to rectify the situation, but it would be unwise of me to promise. In fact, I'm definitely going to be quiet for the next couple of weeks or so - I am off abroad, on an epic jaunt the likes of which have not been imagined. I shall fill you in the very second week I get back. Bon February, dear reader.