It’s been, well let’s just say “a while”, seems that things this year got chaotic and as with everything in life part of the blame must be mine, along with other aspects in life.

Last time I wrote here was many years ago… or at least that’s how it feels, unfortunately commitments in my personal life and university life have stopped me doing as much as I would have liked on www.SpikedEffect.com and this blog.

I’m sceptical about how many people will still be reading this blog, but just in the odd chance that I have a solitary fan out there that has been waiting so long for an update, this entry is for you.

I’m currently sat on a train to London Euston as I draft out this blog entry (which may actually end up being finished on the return journey to Manchester), and it seems the perfect time to let you know about what’s going on in my life apart from it being totally chaotic. So with baited breath I start my ramble…

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted I know, and it seems every time I do, I say I’ll post more often and then I get dragged onto other things in life which deter me from writing here, but I think this time I do have a pretty reasonable excuse.

Last time you heard from me I was sat in Dubai airport waiting for a plane to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and that was the start to the first of my holidays.

I had 10 days in Jeddah which I spent constantly fixing laptops (therefore not having what I needed to post here), then returned to the UK for 5 days to handover any work I had to the next industrial placement student, as well as beginning to arrange moving my stuff ready for the next university year, and then headed off to my second holiday to Athens, Greece…

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