Here I am again! I was offline for almost a month, the longest I’ve been without an internet connection since 1993. The withdrawal symptoms were harsh, especially when I couldn’t remember some detail which I could have found out instantly by using Google. The reason I was without a connection was the old story, not really worth repeating, of an ISP gone bad. Suffice it to say that I wish bad and unrepeatable things on the senior management of TalkTalk, may they rot in heck.

I’ve spent the day updating logins and contact details for all my various accounts. I last had to do it five years ago and it seems all too soon that I’m plodding through it again. Still, it’s done now and it will be back to the pens again tomorrow.

Several of you have sent me messages backchannel and I’ll be in touch in the next few days.