From You I have been Absent in the Spring

My silence over the last few weeks has no excuse, but of course needs none, keeping a blog being a matter of personal choice rather than a duty; but still, it would be sad to let it slide entirely. I would like to have some entries to riffle through (albeit by then downloaded from the long defunct LJ and transcribed onto clay tablets - the only really durable storage medium, as history has shown) with which to while away my fast-approaching dotage.

Much of the last few weeks has been taken up with - apart from doing my job, of course - a little light tour-guiding, notably to Bath, Stonehenge, and (a first for me) a backroom tour of the Cheddar Gorge Cheese Company's factory. All very interesting, yet I couldn't help but notice a certain family resemblance in our tourist manner wherever we happened to rock up.




I highly recommend the cheese tour, by the way. Sadly, I'd booked it before I learned that Linda is lactose-intolerant - which, on the one hand, meant all the more for me and Rei, but (since she used to love cheese) must have been a kind of exquisite torture. Let's hope next month's tour of local slaughterhouses with the Vegetarian Club goes better. Meanwhile, I did manage to sweeten the pill by buying her a nice vegan cake from the Cheddar cake shop.