I'm still here... honest!

Wow. It seems a long time. Judging by the last entry, it has been a long time. For those few, those precious few (hi, Jane; see you got a mention!) reading this, I have had a case in the House of Lords this last week. I seem to have had homework every night of a more intense nature than I had at school, or even at University.

It's a very strange institute, the House of Lords. There is a lot of dressing up, and bowing and scraping. But that's everyone other than the Law Lords themselves. When you get into the committee room for the hearing (having had to line up outside and bow to each of them as they come in), it boils down to five old gimmers in lounge suits sitting round a table, with everyone fawning at them.

Then, occasionally, they ask the question that you have been trying to formulate for the last year and a half, and whittle the case down to the answer to that one question. They are scarily bright guys. And, just in case, if any Law Lord happens to be reading this (it could happen!), apologies for the irreverence. Well, actually, I don't apologise; it is anachronistic, and outdated, and frankly bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

So anyway, my absence has solely been down to pure hard work, and exhaustion.

But I'm back now. Be afraid, be very afraid.  ¶ 7:10 PM