Blogging as a way of life

So yes, I appear to be rather bad at this whole blogging affair. Not sure whether the problem is time, dedication, or stimulation, or a combination of the three, but I have been unable to sit down properly and write about events in my current life. Basically, I came back from a lovely time in Umbria, central Italy, where I relaxed for an entire week, visited some old-school towns and villages, savoured the great food, wine and ice-cream and basically had a jolly great time.
Since then, it's been a combination of working hard and playing hard. Plenty of things to keep me busy at work at the moment, need to wrap up an annual report for DFID, rewrite a paper that I will be presenting to a conference in Washington, as well as organise a load of meetings for the next month or so. However, did manage to go surfing two weeks ago, waves were a bit messy, but still managed to catch a couple of decent ones. Always great to be in the water again, and wish that there were better surfing spots which could be reached easily from London...
That's pretty much my update. Also, for those interested, I saw the edited version of FOTDL Part VII: Flashback, and it's looking good. The director is still tweaking some bits here and there, but it should be hitting the small screens soon. Continue watching this space!