Back again

It's been a fair old while since I last posted a blog. This languour effectively coincided with the arrival of my then future wife. Almost all of the last few blogs I posted were already written some months beforehand. I remember a first time novelist also called Alex saying in a newspaper interview that he was grateful for being single, since if he had to stroke someone's cheek all the time, he would never have finished his book. No truer word said...
Many things have changed since mid-May - I've got married (twice), got a new job, then another, been to Mongolia and back again, there have been good times and bad at Newcastle United, both main parties in the USA have chosen their candidates and these candidates have had their conventions, selected their running mates and had the initial duel on TV, there's been a record-breaking number of hurricanes breezing in from the Atlantic into the Gulf of Mexico and one even reaching Maine and southern Canada and oh, the credit crunch crunched, meaning that whenever I see a Lloyds/TSB Bank advert, I'm watching my new bank. I'm still with HBos (and Nationwide and Nordea, but my accounts with them are negligible), but they flew to close to the flame and burnt up, the badly burned body tended by Lloyds/TSB who taken complete control of them (or at least will do in December).
As events pile up, the drive to get back in the saddle of blogging dips further and further. But I feel it's healthy to continue to write, not for catharsis, but merely to better my prose style. So now I should sign off, but the interval should not be so extended this time.