Yes, I am still alive (just)! Had the most insanely busy last week beginning my new job etc but it\u2019s all been good. Unfortunately I\u2019m still running on a 64k ISDN line at home hence the lack of updates and this isn\u2019t likely to be fixed in the immediate future. Living in London is certainly a lot different to what I\u2019ve been used to in the past \u2013 basically daily life seems to run in fast-forward mode most the time (so far anyway) which has both good and bad points. The main downside being a lack of time to do anything other than work\/sleep\/eat! Hopefully once I\u2019ve got used to it things should settle down. I\u2019ll try to check back in a couple of days and update on something more meaningful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yes, I am still alive (just)! Had the most insanely busy last week beginning my new job etc but it\u2019s all been good. Unfortunately I\u2019m still running on a 64k ISDN line at home hence the lack of updates and this isn\u2019t likely to be fixed in the immediate future. Living in London is certainly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1466,1211],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-london","tag-work"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":351,"url":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/mudchute\/","url_meta":{"origin":327,"position":0},"title":"Mudchute","author":"David","date":"27th January 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Sorry for the dire lack of posting these last few weeks. 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