As you may have noticed over the last few days, my site has been experiencing some problems. In fact, it’s been completely down and my service provider is in the state of getting it back alive again. Currently, if you can read this, then it’s partly back but any of the interactive stuff (like the comments functionality) isn’t working at the moment (that is, right this minute now that I’m typing this). Luckily I do have a backup of most of the posts and my mailing list (that was a sensible ploy) so I should be able to get everything back up and running in the next few days. Do bear with me.

In the meantime, boy have I been busy. The house buy fell through but on the same day that it did we went to see one of their neighbours who is selling their house directly (without the use of an estate agent). The house is exactly the same but with nicer decor and a nicer garden (including a water feature). My girlfriend and her mother had gone to see it before just to compare so we gave the guy a call to see if it had sold. It hadn’t and he suggested we come straight around and have a look. We did, made him an offer there and then which he accepted and we’re back on the moving trail again! He’s already got his next place sorted and a bridging loan in place so we should be able to get in about 4-6 weeks. It’s amazing what can happen in a day!

Anyway, I’m off karting this afternoon so I get to display how bad a racing driver I am (as if a demonstration were necessary). See you later…