So, as predicted I did have to come in early this morning for a conference call to Japan; and I left home in good time to do so, only to find that there was a nasty-looking car accident on Elizabeth Way and I was delayed for fifteen minutes while the police tried to direct traffic safely past it. So I didn't get in nearly as early as I'd planned to, and if it hadn't been for a mix-up over phone numbers having delayed the start of the conference call it would have been hardly worth me having bothered…

Eventually I got to my desk, had just opened up my morning mail-reading session and general warming-up stuff, and was instantly dragged away to what our division head called ‘the next in an ongoing series of Team Briefs’. I hope I wasn't the only person who immediately thought ‘ah, he means it's a pile of pants’; I might go round calling them Team Boxers for a while, just to see who picks up the reference and whose career fixation has eclipsed their sense of humour :-)

Coming hot on the heels of a weekend which I began by collapsing from too much hecticness, all this wasn't entirely welcome. I feel another unproductive week coming on :-(