I had to go home for a couple of days - missing my partner and son. He was delighted to see me, but I suspected that my lovely partner had been relishing a break of her own, interrupted by my return. Harumph.

Alongside my poetry, I have been trying to break the back of my PhD thesis out here. It's one of those pieces of academic writing (an attempt to claim that translated poems have generic characteristics, and to name those characteristics) which cries out for pompous neologisms. I thought I had invented some good 'uns - paraphor and outerrupt for example. Once home, though, I checked them on the Web and discovered - inevitably - that they have all been used before in other contexts.

Keener than before, therefore, to have some minimal access to the Internet, I discovered that nearby Caernarfon has a wireless access cloud in Castle Square. I shall be visiting there soon - and uploading these journal entries when I do.