I’m not sure I entirely like the way this twitter plugin that posts the day’s tweets has the unexpected consequence of highlighting how many days it’s been since I last wrote a real post.

On the plus side, it does mean I’ll easily be able to blog when I go away on holiday, something I’m planning to do, erm, four times in the next three months.

After a little indecision, we’ve plumped for a week in Cyprus visiting friends who work as holiday reps out there; ten days with the tent in Glasgow, Glencoe, Hadrian’s Wall and Scarborough, hopefully fitting in six friends en route. Somehow, the Eurovision Song Contest will have to be factored in as well. Then I will have a week in Munich in July before we both go singing in Salisbury in August.

I did have an informal personal policy about not flying more than once a year. I have easily kept this over the last few years, mostly because the opportunity to use a plane more than once simply hasn’t arisen. I’ll be breaking it this year: both Cyprus and Munich are a pretty long way away, so that’s two lots of flights. Three if you count the fact that I couldn’t find a sensible direct route to Munich so will be making stopovers in Frankfurt and Dusseldorf. Not looking forward to that journey much – it will take a long time, mean lots of hanging around in airports, and on the outward journey, means setting off at the crack of dawn as well.