So, here's April in a couple of lines:

Lunches, dinners and drinks with [insert a wide selection of my friends and colleagues new and old].

An absolutely amazing time in Cairo visiting Kate and doing all the touristy stuff at a rate of knots (see the photos I just uploaded).

Buying loads of plants for the office, so we're now working in a much more verdant - and hopefully oxygenated - environment.

Spending a weekend in the Allgäu with my choir for some intensive rehearsals - and some more intensive drinking!! And it snowed while we were there. So much for April being the start of anything springlike.

Hitting the Frühlingsfest with a bunch of guys, just to remember what the Oktoberfest is like (it'd been SO long!)

Wow! That really was just a couple of lines! Perhaps a bit lacking in atmosphere - particularly for anyone who was hoping I might wax lyrical about the splendid and fantastic and astounding (and happily incident-free) time I had in Egypt, exposing myself to thousands of years' worth of human history in just three days. But brevity has a certain beauty of its own. Stop.