The longest journey begins with the first step..........

Memo to self ; If you are going to make any more stupid bets with yourself in future regarding keeping a weblog for a whole year and commenting on each day, don't take a months holiday away from a computer, because then the discipline (such as it is ) breaks down completely.

Today as I write this blog it is the 12th of October some thirty seven days since my last blog on the 5th of September and I struggle to remember what happened a couple of days ago let alone five weeks or more. Fortunately the ever efficient Mrs Norman has kept her own log on the salient points of what we've been up to during this time so perhaps all is not lost.

I don't have a Mrs N crib sheet for the two days immediately prior to our jetting off to Spain so I'll have to use the famous literary device of total fabrication to fill in the blanks. This blog then is for Wednesday the 6th of September and I probably got in the way whilst my industrious and ever patient wife started the packing, a job which takes a prodigious amount of time or a little longer if I help.

One of my human contacts this day would certainly have been my wife and my thoughts may have touched on the cramped environment of modern air travel. My deed would have been to resist any temptation to help with the packing.