and am beginning to realise how easily you can lose touch with the real world when you're not trotting to the office each day. Not  that I mind much...apart from the back pains and a surreal mophine inspired experience in A&E I quite enjoyed myself and finally was able to read all the books I've been wanting to read lately and never had the time:

His Dark Materials Trilogy > incredible!

The Fifth Element- the search for dark matter in the universe > still on it (thanks Philip Pullmann!)

I, Lucifer > excellent!

A Quiet Belief in Angels > wunderbar!

A Tale of Love and Darkness > tear jerking and interesting. 

 Plus I have done an awful lot of useless scribbling and editing of existing material....etc. Hardly spoken to anyone though and i am feeling like an ermit. Feels good.