Back again

Dear blog,

This blog is going the way of my attempts to keep a diary when I was a teenager. Which I figured would happen when I started it. Now that I've come to the end of the pre-Christmas run-up (or run-down, depending on how you look at it), my mind seems to be clicking back into writing mode. And thinking about things other than work. This year's pre-Christmas ride seemed the worst ever -- or maybe I'm just out of practice after all those years living in a quiet village on the side of a mountain.

'Nuf said about that. Let's move on to what I really wanted to talk about.