The marking is all done, the students are spread to the four winds for semester break, school holidays are upon us.

Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

(Then people long to go on pilgrimages
and pilgrims to seek strange shores
far-off shrines, known in sundry lands;)

In short, we are off to the beach house for the winter break, as Geoffrey Chaucer recommends.

Log fires, walks on the windy beach, books, Shiraz, S’mores, the complete boxed set of West Wing DVDs.

No broadband.

See you again in ten days or so.

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It didn’t go as smoothly as I had hoped.

Some text got munged up and some other bits and pieces are broken.

I will work it all out in the end, but apologies for the mess in the meantime.

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It’s been too long a break, but I am now slowly getting back into the blogging groove.

Of course, it’s an exciting time to be back. With Leopard, you never quite know — alarms in iCal, admin privileges, .Mac syncing — everything’s an adventure!

Thanks to all those who commented that it’s nice to have Hawk Wings back.

Thanks too to Akismet which caught 53,000 comment spams while I was away. Nonetheless, over 630 comments spams slipped through into the comment moderation queue. I deleted them all, and I am sorry if your unapproved comment died with them.

Onwards and upwards.

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We are moving house today.

The telephone company has cutting-edge, user-focussed customer service, so we can’t get a phone line connected until 12 July, with broadband following after that.

My Treo 680 can do many things, but I don’t how to use it to post on Hawk Wings, so I am just letting you know that nothing will appear for a bit.

Once house buying, selling and moving, and job excitement is over, perhaps I’ll get a clear run at blogging again.

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After taking a little break from Hawk Wings due to a rush of Real Life, I now find myself in the eye of the storm.

So I am going to post some stuff.

Thanks to all the people who emailed wondering if I had fallen under a bus or been burnt at the stake. It’s nice to be missed.

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The opportunity has come up, due to a miraculous absence of work, church or wider family commitments, to make a break for the beach house. We’re taking it.

I’ll be back in just over a week.

I hope that Hawk Wings readers have a happy, relaxing and joyful Easter. I know that I will:

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