So said Rafiki, anyway.

Yes, yes, I realised (and have been pulled up on the fact no less than three times in the past 24 hours) that I haven't blogged in a long while. Thus, this is to appease those out there that were afraid that I might've stopped blogging for good: nil desperandum, mes amis. If you have to know why I haven't been blogging for the past week and a half, allow me to explain briefly for you;

Easter Monday - Wednesday: I was in Nottingham as the guest of Mitch and Emily. It was nice to be down there and, what with all the relaxing and enjoying myself I was doing, I found little time to blog.

Thursday: Recovering from Nottingham and working all day with the Tories.

Friday - Sunday: Went away with Youth Fellowship to Tarn which is, quite precisely, in the middle of nowhere as well as being at the back of beyond. (From this, one might formulate that the two are somehow related and, whilst I'm tempted to draw a diagram to explain this little thesis of mine, I shall refrain for the good of us all.) I had minimal access to modern technology whilst up there, being without the Internet, a computer and signal most of the time. I'd thus like to take this opportunity to apologise to anyone I didn't text back on account of my not receiving the text due to my being in the middle of a field.

Monday - Today (Wednesday): It was Mitch's turn to come and see me in jolly old Bolton. What possessed him to do so is beyond me, though I'm awfully glad he did - it was good fun to spend time with him (not that it normally isn't, nor that it was anymore fun that it would be with anyone else, I just felt like a bit of unprecedented flattery). Together, we managed to devour half a pig and cow respectively grace a the strawberry duck, spend far too long looking at toys than grown men should and top my previous personal best in the pub quiz combined with the brains of Bolton.

I feel I must also apologise to everyone for not putting up an April Fool's gag. In truth, I couldn't think of one that I hadn't done in previous years, and so shall have to think long and hard about what to do for next year. Actually, I didn't really manage to fool that many people compared to what I normally manage, though I'm going to attribute this in part to being in bed until 10 more than anything else.

Anyway, until next time;

Gaz out.