See what I did there? I disappeared from view again! Okay, this time I am making the most of the good weather and doing some serious gardening. The exercise I've been doing this year (I've lost well over 50 pounds) means that I can now do way more than a couple of hours without getting exhausted or feeling ill, which is fantastic. It also means I have less time on the computer. Which is also great - real life is much more interesting, after all.

The garden is a big job. I've lived in this house for 18 years and have done the absolute minimum outside. And I do mean minimum - when the grass grows tall enough so that I can't see my dogs out there I cut it, and that's basically it. Sometimes not even that! I have a pile of concrete slabs outside which have been there for several years waiting to be laid down as a patio. Still waiting. Until last month (the start of my adventures in the garden) I had a garden with a surface like a rollercoaster because over the years soil had built up in the jungle undergrowth. I've had to strip the entire layer of grass and soil off and am in the process of digging it level and at the same time removing any unwanted growing things (in this case, that is everything).

So that's why I'm away. And it's going to be a while. But I do have a project on the go, a big, exciting thing which I'm writing and which, funnily enough, the gardening is helping. While I dig, my mind is clear of the clutter which usually bombards it when I sit down in front of the computer (the Internet is a habit which is hard to kick), and outside I get more and more ideas, and frequently have to run into the house to write them down. Today was particularly productive in that respect - at one point I just stopped going back outside for a while because I was writing down so much. With pen and paper - no keyboard involved. Anyone still remember when that was the only way to write things?! In the time when I am actually still in the house, or when the weather is bad so I can't go out, I turn the ideas into... things. I can say no more. If I did I might jinx it. Suffice to say, it's something you would never ever expect from me. Or indeed from any of the other YouTube atheists. 'Different' is not the word. Well, yes it is the word, but it's not strong enough.

I'll be around. Not making videos, maybe not even blogging very much, but I'm not gone, I'm just... busy. Sorry!