We would like to apologise for the delay to this service.

I’m sorry for all the blog posts I haven’t written (yet). I’m very sorry for being unforgivabley late in replying to a number of emails (rather than just, you know, very late as usual).

For the last week or so I have done none of the many pleasant (communicative) or useful (stuff-sorting) things that I really ought to have done earlier anyway. I am up to my eyeballs in an a work thing that is very large, very tedious and very important.

It is part of a thing upon which a million dollars more or less of funding could hang. Which means no buggering-up room for me. And, given that I have also been busy with a lot of other things recently, it means lots of working twelve-hour days and working at the weekend.

I think anyone who’s ever met me could tell you that such does not come naturally. Consequently am cracking up rather, both physically and mentally. There is a kind of Zenlike calm which comes of knowing you really don’t have time for anything except work, food and washing up, so you don’t have to worry about anything else (such as unwritten emails, to pick an example out of the air…), but I’ve never been all that keen on Zenlike calm. Especially when accompanied by an Enormous amount of stress…

I have a week left to go before the deadline, during which I fully expect to be going mental. But I do remember about all the emails, and I would much rather be writing meandering blogrubbish. Sorry.