I haven't written anything for ages because I have just been soooooo busy. January is usually a quite month at work but this year has been bloody mental. So far this week I got home at 11 pm on Monday and left again at 6am on Tuesday. Then both Tuesday and tonight I didn't get home till after 8. Next week is mad too.

We still seem to be getting a lot of shows for the Government. So far this year I've done events for the Dept. of Constitutional Affairs and the Home Office. I've put microphones on both Permanent Secretarys and the Home Secretary. It was interesting to meet the Permanent Secretary at the DCA, Alex Allan as I knew of him as he runs a rather good site on the good old Grateful Dead.

He must be the only high ranking civil servant who lists the Grateful Dead as an interest on their department website. I did however resist the urge to tell him that the lyrics quiz on his website has wasted so much of my time and how I've still haven't managed to score more than 6 out of 10!!

I've also been restricted in my blogging by the IT manager at work who has seen fit to add blog.co.uk to the banned list on our firewall. That'll teach me to fall out with him. Not my fault I know a lot about IT but it seems to piss off IT managers when you know as much as they do - especially if he has just reformated a colleagues hard drive losing al their data and the same problem occurs with your pc and you point out it could be a conflict between the new anti-virus software and the old one he has left on there.

Title comes from a track by a band called Budgie - it was a track of their album "Never turn your back on a friend" that I dug out after a good few years - it amazing how you don't hear something for 15 years and you can still remember the lyrics!! I saw them a few times back in the late 70's but they're still doing the rounds.

Finally it was Sarah's birthday today but I'm probably not allowed to say that she was >:XX!!