Bonny Prince Thea

Normal, sloppy and intermittent service has been resumed on this blog. For once, though, I have an excuse. I have been exiled to Scotland for work, which I am wondering whether I will end up liking very much (probably not, but I am trying to be positive).

With a bit of luck, I will be able to get a flat in Edinburgh in a couple of weeks, and then I can have friends to stay at weekends if I don't feel like the long slog down to London from Edinburgh. And Edinburgh itself is such a beautiful city (what a pity I'm working on an industrial estate outside Livingston....). Yesterday when I got up the sun was shining over the Firth of Forth and I could see it from my hotel - it was wonderful.

The getting up at five on Mondays is going to be a bit of a bugger, though. And the ultra-organisation needed to have any sort of social life (I have just arranged to have lunch with someone six weeks from now) is utterly antipathetic - I like to have a bit of give in my social arrangements. Oh well. It is, after all, what I get paid for. I just wish I could greet it with enthusiasm rather than resignation.