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Well, I had planned on going out to take pictures this morning. Spring seems to have arrived overnight (or perhaps I’d just not noticed it creeping up on us) and the whole town seems to be full of white blossom and yellow flowers that will no doubt be murdered by the next batch of snow.

Walking to the station on Wednesday morning, the sky was a brilliant, vibrant blue, the grass an almost unnaturally intense green and the white blossom a stark contrast to it all. This morning, though, when I have time to go out and be creative, the clouds have come over and everything is dark and grey, which probably means I’ll settle down with the iBook again and try to make some more progress on the book.

I could do with a day away from the keyboard really, though. For one thing it means I’ll drink less coffee (although saying that the kettle is boiling as I type), and for another I should probably give my fingers a few days rest. Spent the whole of yesterday in the lab typing up reviews or meeting with suppliers, and the rest of the week, barring Thursday night, working late.

Still, the late nights should hopefully subside a little in the next few weeks, as the magazine redesign - which none of us could talk about until now - is complete. We sent off the final sections to be printed on Tuesday, and the first issues arrived in the office yesterday morning. That’s a pretty impressive turnaround.

Everyone has worked very hard on it - especially the art team, who have done even longer hours than me some nights, and on one occasion worked non-stop from 10 one morning until 5 the next evening without going to bed. It’s paid off, though. The result is a cleaner, fresher, more colourful and less cluttered set of pages, with plenty of space for flexibility, which retains the magazine’s design strengths.

It should be with subscribers by Monday or Tuesday, I guess, and out in the shops by the end of next week, at which point the emails should start to roll in.

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