Strange days indeed

The last six or so weeks have taken me to Israel, Germany (three times), Spain (twice), Italy, Switzerland, St Lucia and Egypt. Not all for work of course. Tomorrow I'm working in Basel for the day then on Friday I'm off to Australia to visit family and friends. For personal reasons it's been a very tough few months and all that time in the air has afforded me, if not a sense of catharsis, then at least one of momentum.

I've done my best to keep up my various habitual 'inputs' (news mags, blogs, podcasts) and that's been hard enough. All of those ambitious 'outputs' (producing, directing or performing comedy, other creative projects, this blog) have been on hold - no point in demanding an audience's attention if there's nothing that you feel like saying. Time is taking a long time healing these wounds.

I hope to be on these pages more often over the summer. The consulting job is busier than ever yet every day for the last week or so I've woken up with just a little additional surplus attention, which is a good sign. I will start blogging more and watch the unfolding of friends' Edinburgh projects with interest, albeit from afar.