I don’t know whether or not it’s just the way my pinhead employers configure their computers, but I can’t believe how bad The Ministry looks on Internet Explorer 6 in Windows XP.

Why doesn’t everybody use Firefox or Safari on Macs?  It’d make my life a damned sight easier.

I’m half-inclined to give the whole fucking thing up as a bad job at the moment.  I clearly have another long weekend of WordPress-fiddling ahead of me.  

Bear with me.  It’s not easy running a Ministry and counting the £103,000 in non-sequential notes I’ve mislaid down the back of the sofa.

The reality of my daily life is that I am juggling a lot of balls in the air – some of you must have experienced that.

Trying to be a good husband and Minister, trying to be the Minister’s Wife’s consort at home and abroad and being a solicitor, a charity worker.

And sometimes some of the balls get dropped.  There just aren’t enough hours in the day.

I am sorry if I have embarrassed anyone, but the people who know me well know that I would never want to harm anyone or misuse my position in any way at all.

Sometimes I feel I’d like to crawl away and hide but I will not.