Shocking lapse of input

OK.

Quite a lot has happened.

Executive Summary

After Faithless :
Dinner with family
Office Carol Service featuring yours truly on Djembe and singing Bass
Office Pantomime with your truly appearing with Djembe (again) and flaming trousers
Flew to Latvia (Saturday 10th)
Dinner and mad sandbox-based Reggae raving
Dinner and insane Riga-wide bar roaming nonsense
3 am Pelmeni (which is not a restaurant but a Latvian ravioli)
Got up as my cousin came back to the hostel to fly back to UK
Back to work
Eurostar to Brussels (while the Council budget negotiations were going on)
Meeting at the Commission - 16 Member States
Hit the town
Bilateral at the Commission
War museum in the park
Back to London
Meeting at the DTI
Synthetic Culture with the newbies (mental)
Christmas shopping (Saturday 17th)
Christmas party in Lewisham
Back to work

All this from 7-18 December.

Mental.

Latvia and Brussels were great. Two very positive pro-EU experiences despite my natural scepticism. Met lots of cool like-minded people and had a lot of fun. But boy did I learn a lot.

And boy am I knackered!