And another six months goes by, and another chunk in which lot's has happened that seems reasonably trivial on reflection.

The kids continue to be kids, although their clothes have changed. Work continues, life, generally, continues.

Last year of OU study has begun, and a degree awaits. The project isn't going, perhaps, as well as it might, but if I don't pass that I can opt for an unnamed, non-honours degree. It would be a shame, but it's a comforting thought when I get the poor marks back.

Work continues to be work - involved and often busy, and still a fairly steep learning curve, but I'm beginning to get on top of it. I've (we've) passed our ISO9000 audit, which was fairly easy, and an APACS and two VISA audits - more tricky. The big one, though, is coming in August - MasterCard!!!

And writing's taken off. I finished 'Light and Dark', which snuck up on me suddenly, and I'm working on getting to the end of Judgements now - which is going well. Don't know where I'm going to go from there, we'll have to see.