As Monty Slocombe has pointed out in his usual courteous and understated way, there has been little blogging on this site over the last few days. Primarily, this has been due to a significant increase in my workload; I thought an MP’s life was busy, which it is, but ministerial duties have taken that workload up another gear still.
Sadly, therefore, I have to conclude that light blogging is likely to be the rule, rather than the exception, for the foreseeable future. My profuse apologies to my readers, but there we are. I’m sure you’ll understand.
A second reason for the lack of blogging has been the fact that we have just moved house – a significantly harrowing experience, bedevilled and delayed by all sorts of hiccups.
The move itself took place on Friday. We said goodbye to the old family house, loaded our worldly possessions in a couple of vans and headed two miles eastward, over the next hill but one. There we disgorged the same possessions and settled down to a summer in which we will be sharing our new home with builders, electricians, heating engineers and decorators.
It will be a long haul, but I’m sure it will be worth it.
