Reflection

Talk about a day for reflection. Today marks a decade since hand over of Hong Kong back to China, the smoking ban came into force at 6am and there's the fortunately failed terrorist attempts to consider.

Blair to believe in Pixies in favour of Elves...

... or this might just as well be what he's doing with his much talked about imminent conversion to Roman Catholicism. Choose your own flavour of make believe and largely archaic and pointless rules by which to lead your life. Whoopee. Perhaps this tells us a lot about our outgoing PM.

35 days later

What a difference a month makes. New job, flat and life more of less, although in some ways I'm picking up where I left off before my travels - back in the big smoke. I'm still in south-west London albeit in a different quarter, and my job is now in an area where I want to be. I'm only a few weeks in, in fact just a few days in if we're talking about the flat, so it's still early days with some amount of settling in to be done, however so far so good.

Often it takes some time and some contrasts to boot you in the right direction. I'd spent some months at home in the idyllic green and pleasant land of the lakes and dales, and while this was fine I realised it wasn't what I was looking for now. I had had misgivings about moving back to London but in the end it is the place where my friends are and the best opportunities lie in store, and in fact it's not so bad. So far it's going nicely and I'm enjoying the buzz once again.

What of this blog then? Well I suppose it will have to become the blog of an urban village, which is pretty much where I am. From one village of sorts to quite another. Change of scene but the story continues.