Here is the campaign blog though the last two entries were rushed due to Xmas and Vacations from Hell and pipes bursting and ceilings falling in and life generally sucking.

Well that's a month gone by in a flash. How is everyone doing? Anyone seen a swallow yet?

No swallows, not even a gulp. However, seen on the bird feeder today: sparrow, pigeon, great tit, blue tit, dunnock, nuthatch, squirrel, jackdaw, mouse.

...and having just popped to the kitchen I can add a female blackbird and a magpie to that list. It is all go today!

Oh look, I've got a special 4-legged furry bird that goes miaow.

I'll go out and talk to it

I've spent the day interpreting for a meeting where everyone's second language was English, and I now have a headache the size of a zepplin. Good lunch though!

(nights) My Dad's second language was English. I take your point, though.

I sympathise, used to do the same thing very regularly. Have you tried doing both sides of a German-French conversation? Imagine so, given you location. There's a reason interpreters only do twenty-minute shifts...