I know you've all missed me terribly and no doubt have been waiting eagerly and impatiently for more pearls of wisdom and exciting tales from the keyboard of your favourite blogger.

Well, here I am, back once again (with the ill behaviour), to entertain and brighten your day.

Yes folks, after a two month (unplanned) hiatus, I'm making a triumphant return to the blogsphere!

What's that you say? You couldn't care less?

Oh well, let's get on with the moaning then.

First a round-up of what's been going on in my life since I last blogged, in the form of answers to the increasingly annoying questions that everyone has been asking me in the last two weeks: - Yes thanks, I had an excellent Christmas and New Year. The usual; family, food and fun.

- What did I receive? Mostly socks.

- Yes I did stay in on New Year's Eve.

- Why? Because it's an over-priced waste of time. (And I had to work the next day.) - No I haven't made any New Year's Resolutions because they're a waste of time too, and I don't want to punish myself further in what is already the greyest, most depressing month of the year.

- No, I haven't got this "bug that's going around," and to be honest I'm beginning to suspect it's just an excuse for lazy people who can't face going back to work.

- Sorry I don't have any change. (This one is for the Big Issue sellers, who seem to have multiplied exponentially since Christmas, and have even started popping up in Pontypool of all places.)

It's my birthday on Tuesday. So this weekend will see much drinking and debauchery in Cardiff with my friends. But I'm banning them from calling it a "celebration". You see I'm going to be 27, or "knocking on 30" as my sympathetic girlfriend has jokingly' claimed a couple of times, and that's certainly nothing to celebrate. What happened to my youth? It only seems like yesterday that I was turning 18 and getting ready for the exciting adventures of university. Now my youth is slipping away, and the depressing day that I will become a "thirty-something" is drawing ever closer.