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...

Talking of second languages, I need to practice using my Dutch in shouted conversations with farmers across fields. Either that or just shut up and wave when I'm on lunchtime dog walks.

(pen) Could depend rather crucially on what you say, or what they thought you said.

Dunx.org has dropped off the web. And we have not heard from Dunx for quite a long time. I hope this is just because he is too busy to participate in the Morniverse. Is anyone in regular touch with him? MCiOS seems to have a problem also: when I tried to post this there, I got “An error occurred while reading CGI reply (no response received)”.

Can't see anything wrong from here...