Numerous Crawfs have made it safely back home after two weeks in sizzling Greek sunshine, freed from the temptation to look at the Meejer via the Internet during this period by the fact that the clueless hotel had no wireless capability and a solitary Internet computer charged out at €5 for 45 minutes.

I did look at BBC World fleetingly, for a clip about Swine Flu in the UK. Various experts intoned earnestly about the risk of mass panic and why that would be bad.

These observations might have been supported by some context figures showing how many people die from different sorts of flu or other common ailments in a normal year. Instead we were shown a large blue science-fictionish pulsating scary blue computer-animated germ-like blob, tentacles a-quivering, without any explanation of what it was.

How can apparently intelligent people put out such irresponsible – and pitifully poor – material?

The highlight of the hol, other than seeing two insolent turtles swimming near our boat without the basic good manners to take their heads out of the water for a nice photo, was the local ice-cream emporium. Our ice-cream – Warm and Fresh

Back here just in time for the Norwich North by-election result. Independent candidate Craig Murray has scored a resounding success, reversing the embarrassment of being beaten by the BNP in Blackburn in 2005.

Then he lost by 181 votes and romped home in fifth place.

This time he crushed them by 12 votes, a significant swing in his favour, but he only finished 6th. His share of the vote dropped from 5% to 2.8%.

The Libertarian candidate got 36 votes. Hmm.

Oh, and Labour got tonked too.

Conclusion?

Nothing, other than the fact that people have been coming to the Blogoir in non-trivial numbers despite (or maybe even because of??) the total absence of recent postings.

Thanks.

Normal service to be resumed gradually.