Well, that is it from me for now. Simon has returned from his holiday, and is currently powering through his emails in order to feel less guilty about recommencing blogging.

Thank you for being laregly nice to me and hopefully you have been sufficiently entertained in his absence.

I'd like to leave you with a fable. Simon once drove to pick up a coffee for Mrs M one morning on a weekend. Wanting to get back home while it was still hot, he decided it would be faster to have two hands on the steering wheel rather than one. Unfortunately, his car was not sufficiently equipped with cup holders, and he placed the coffee between his legs. While driving home, he was forced to break suddenly, spilling the coffee all over his nether-regions, causing second degree burns.

The moral of the story: If bad stuff happens to you, keep it to yourself. If you can't, try and make sure that it doesn't get spread beyond your family and friends. And under no circumstances give blog access to someone who knows the story.

I hope you have all learnt from this fable.