Must try harder...

This blog began in August 2005 - when I returned to the UK after living in Australia and East Timor.

However life cannot have been that interesting as, in the next two-and-a-bit years I managed to make two entries.

One dissected the origins of the blog title*, so hardly an event in itself.

The other was about meeting David Hasselhoff in a lift, which clearly was.

But I am going to start again, not least because I am running (well, taking part in) the 2008 London Marathon and hope that in return for being given a fantastic insight into my training and efforts to stay off the booze, some kindly souls may like to sponsor me.

So cheers.

* While in a class learning the Timorese langauge, Tetum, I mistakenly described myself as a chicken (rather than a man - the words are quite similar). Given my classmates were all Australian, my nickname during that time in Dili became Chook which, in Aussie parlance, means chicken. A chook pen is somewhere that chickens live, but given it also has connotations of writing, it seemed a reasonably good blog title. Bear in mind though, that I had been starved of good comedy for a couple of years.