A new start

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes in the way a smoker coughs up phlegm when they have sworn off their last cigarette, I have decided to start blogging again. Being the true marketing man I am, I am re-starting this blog to meet popular demand - but only because there was no supply.

I had found some old blogs in my Mac which I had written but never posted. I have not re-read them or edited them, believing that whatever I wrote then would be sufficient for now. They are now available for scrutiny and subject to public disdain. I have also missed boring you with the tedium of the excellent adventures I've had over the past year since I last posted on this blog including a road trip through Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California where I tried my hand out at fly-fishing and whitewater rafting, weekends away in Hamilton Island and Apollo Bay, and trips to Krakow, the Champagne region, Edinburgh (multiple times for work during my time at the Scotland Office), Glasgow to see relatives, Athens, Mykonos and Luxembourg. Maybe I will go backwards and write about them one day. If only to imprint on my mind the various things one should remember in order to lecture my future children about: "Back in my day, countries like Luxembourg existed before they bored themselves out of existence!". On that note, I should mention that Luxembourg now takes pride of place as Taffy's most boring city in Europe, replacing the city of Dresden which had held that title since 2006.

Despite my sarcasm, I'm glad that you've finally managed to keep up. A is for Apple. Apparently. It's in my best interests to keep up this rather public journal (Dear Diary. Life is being a real shit at the moment. Can you please mow over him with the lawn mower), and possibly in your interests so that you don't need to listen to me tell you all about it. Just simply refer me back to my blog and tell me to shut up.

Fine.