First, the typical. Thanks to my good friend Jonic, this (alarmingly good looking) blog has been recieving some very welcome attention recently, and as the good man told me, now would be a good time to start attacking the notion of posting regularly with the same fervour that my housemate’s snakes attack their mice. But of course my wonderful and in-no-way-soul-destroying McJob decided that this would be a brilliant time to deny me any kind of access to said blog. Couple this with Orange’s continued mission to charge us for an internet connection they have expressed no interest in supplying to us, and it’s all had to fall by the wayside. Bah. To any of you new people who have stuck around, Hi. Normal service shall resume soon enough.

Now, for the atypical, to which I refer of course to the American Mid-Terms. What joy to wake this morning to hear the words ‘The Democrats have won…..’ Of course those words would have sounded a lot more pleasing two years ago, but maybe its time we Johnny Foreigners started to give them damn Yanks the benefit of the doubt. It may have taken them six years, but they have finally realised their mistake. Also, has anyone else noticed that in the first election without Karl ‘the fixer’ Rove for the last six years, this has happened? Strange.

Anyway, cheers for sticking around if you have done so.