with apologies to those who might have been looking for posts... I'm back after a short hiatus somewhat distracted by too much work, too many emails, too much reading... you know the drill.

While it has occurred to me that after a year of writing this blog and now after six months in the new job that perhaps it's time has passed, I'll keep going for a bit. I was thinking yesterday about whether I'd "settled in". I think I have - I tend to do that fairly quickly in new environments and I'm getting prepositions about 'we' and 'they' correct - for the most part! But whatever 'loyalty' one develops towards an institution won't entirely disappear overnight after 11 years of working there and judging from past experience I'm never going to not have a soft spot for TheOldPlace. And the people that work/ed there, even more so.