I'm having that feeling where everything is going a bit too fast - and I haven't even had a coffee!

It's a mixture of excitement at a long weekend in Berlin starting tomorrow morning (driving up with Christian & Bénédicte), exhaustion after the first five-day working week in what seems like ages, and residual sensory overload from last weekend's four-day stint in Dresden (with Bénédicte and a host of EPO people). Oh, and still being a bit ill from the cold from my last post, I suppose. That makes sense. That and being A WHOLE YEAR OLDER than I was ten days ago.

I feel energised but tired, almost a bit too energised, like it's all going to collapse in a minute. Part of me wants to just switch off and do nothing, but most of me wants to get out there and live. Argh! Perhaps those sugared almonds were a bad move for dessert this evening.

Anyway, I'll try to stop rambling now, and give you an update on things since the last blog. Well, actually I've already mentioned everything except going to see the new Star Trek film - which is fanTAStic by the way!

So yes, I'm 36 now. That's, like, WAY old, isn't it? I made an evening of it by inviting people to come & drink a beer with me that day in my local Beer Garden, the Nockherberg, a handy five-minute crawl round the corner from my flat. The weather that day was the best all week, and it was a lovely mild evening & night. The last to leave were Bezi & Mouhammad, true to form! They'd also been in a party mood the previous weekend for Bénédicte's birthday bash.

I'm going to leave this blog there. Basically because I've already been to Berlin now, which feels like it ought to be a fresh blog all on its own - action-packed weekend!

Which makes this one of my shortest blogs EVER! Notable by its rarity, I'm sure. Stop waffling now Rich, you're spoiling the moment. Byeeee!!