What do you mean where've we been? Just in case you were starting to fear that the blog might have gone into liquidation or something, consider this the equivalent of a 'New Posts Under Construction' sign, and rest assured that normal service will resume soon.

As soon as the coursework deluge subsides - we're onto the second drafts now, virtually all of which are indistinguishable from the first drafts, rendering all of my careful suggestions and corrections utterly redundant - I'll be back at the blogface. Indeed so lax have we been in recent weeks that I'm even fobbing you off with a picture from as far back as the New Year's Eve soiree chez Cath's Aunty Janet.

And it's no accident that normal red-eye elimination procedures weren't carried out on the above photo. In recent days, we've met a new, demonic side to Olivia that we never knew existed...

Now it's back to the marking for me...