I'm back!

While I've been gone some things have occurred:

1. I celebrated my thirtieth birthday. On my actual birthday I was at a wedding of some strangers. I heartily recommend this as a birthday idea. To the extent that I'm thinking about emulating Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan in The Wedding Crashers. Though I won't be bedding ladies. Or wearing a suit and talking sharp. I'll just be doing the going-to-weddings-of strangers part. If anyone else is thinking that they would like to spend their birthday in this way, might I recommend that you specify certain things: a bona fide scrap between the brothers of the bride; girls in the toilets sharing conciliatory comments over unknown tragedies 'At the end of the day, all men are absolute cocks. That's the way you've got to look at it'; the venue employing an elderly butler type gent who will wander about with an accidental post-it note on his back; and, well, just general revelry.

2. I moved house. Although I have not managed to do any of the boring bits - like changing addresses, unpacking, etc. I have done all the most important bits. Like downloading the theme tune to Ski Sunday and playing it repeatedly while sliding across the living room floor.

3. I went to see Lachrymose One supporting Dawn of the Replicants and got to hear the words 'This song's about Galashiels stroke global warning'.

4. Experienced what seemed like a real emergency situation where my friend needed to escape from someone and shouted 'RUN!!!' as we left the pub. The next day I worried 'we could easily have got run over!' Nick apparently remembered events more clearly. 'Erm, it was more of a case of you running up to the pedestrian crossing, pressing the button, waiting, then running again.'