“Work hard, play hard” is a good rule to live life by and I did just that by jetting off to the Canary Islands for a week’s holiday with family. A well earned rest from a busy workload. Now back home to reality in ‘sunny Blantyre’ and 20 degrees cooler!

With scheduled advance posts appearing here daily as normal, some of you may be forgiven for not noticing anything different. Others may be still awaiting replies to comments and emails. Apologies for the intermittent replies. All messages will be responded to in due course, caught back up this evening.

I had a great time spending much needed quality time with family, and still found plenty of time late into the night to seriously progress my next book. This was my office view last week!