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As Professor Farmsworth might say, "good news everybody" he appears to be back to his best form and we can only hope that this last week is a taste of things to come.

Monday was a day of much-needed R&R before the fun could begin again on Tuesday.

As the world's economy slips ever more rapidly into recession his firm is reducing headcount and on Tuesday announced a redundancy consultation which whilst he is safe from obviously is poor for morale generally. To improve matters he headed to Totos (in essence the firm bar) and discovered virtually everyone who is at risk in there drowning their sorrows. Being the chief morale maintenance officer is a heavy cross to bear at these times and he set about his task with his usual wit and tact, "you know your best chance of safety is getting pregnant, roll up roll up I'll help you out there" accompanied by a cheeky (shurely shleezy? - ed) wink.

Not, if we were being honest, quite the message they wanted to hear.

His work done he called it a night.

After such exertions Wednesday was scheduled as a one on one morale maintenance mission and he and the lovely Janina went to Aqua for, "just one quick drink." This statement could be said to be true but only if one defines "one quick drink" as half a galloon of beer, two bottles of wine plus a half of pudding wine. The driving rain for the work home sobered him up sadly.

Another day and another curry was the recipe for Thursday with Danny, Sedgers, Slasher and Brian and a special guest appearance by a galloon of beer.

Friday was always scheduled to be a quiet one to recover but somehow turned into a night out in Utopia followed by Hotel du Vin for some more of that red tea. Oh well he can recover at the weekend.