I don't think going away for four days really constitutes a leave of absence from blogging of two weeks - please accept most humble apologies. A really cool thing to say was that I went away in search of plastic Kiss bears, but it's just not true. That said, do I want some Kiss bears on the shelf in my office? Yes, I really do - they would look splendid next to other Kiss items. What I really want most is a set of Kiss otters, but I don't think that's on the agenda... not this year anyway. Maybe I should mail Gene.

What I really did was jump in the car and hack it over to the other side of the country for some surfing fun. Despite going over there as often as school will allow us to, I still can't quite get my head around how different it is. It's like going to a completely different country - this time we went with some friends, which always makes it a bit different. Rhiannon still doesn't like surfing much, but I'll put that down to her being seven. Ellie on the other hand isn't far off getting on a big board. Maybe next year. Anyway, we all forsook the big boards this year in favour of the much easier to carry bodyboards. Last time I smacked myself in the face with a big board and crushed one of my teeth, so that was fine by me.

I seem to write more when I'm there too. Not sure if it's because there are less distractions or that I feel I should but some good stuff came out - most of it 2H4D related which is a good thing because it's about time we moved on to book three and got this puppy a bit more finished up. I'll continue this post later on - far too excited today by the final episode of Doctor Who to do much else...