We're off line at home again. Something broke at the exchange and we're waiting for BT to send an engineer. Probably won't be fixed until Thursday. Can't make voice calls or get on the 'net.

Life's been too busy to blog much. I'm not reading a lot at the moment. Trying to work on the website I've been plodding through for a while now. Still no where near getting it online.

Work is all project management, which means lots of ups and downs. Don't want to talk about that at the moment.

Feeling quite flat. Need something to energise me.

On the bus home at the moment. Thank goodness it's Friday. Feeling more than a touch groggy after go out for a meal with Deb last night (a night out!) and drinking way too much. Ended up with a row with her parents and them going off in a huff. Hey ho.

Also a bit strung out because Alex is being increasingly difficult in the mornings. He knows he's going to a new school, and is doing one day a week there already. Now he doesn't want to keep going to his old school, and won't get dressed or leave the house.

I suppose this is a good thing in a way - he likes the new school - but life from here to the end of term is going to be tough.

Jessica is going on an adventure sports week away with school next week. No doubt there will be tears to go with the week away from home, but hopefully she'll have a good time.

Gordon Brown continues to limp on. I don't quite know how to feel about this. I agree with the Guardian that it's time for him to go, but it seems clear that he's going to make a fight of it internally - even if he can't seem to manage the same ferocity with the Tories that he does with his own ministers.

I don't actually think the election results were as disastrous as they might have been. Yes, Labour support fell away. But the really interesting point was that the Conservatives didn't pull away. There is still an opening for a Labour leader who can articulate a reforming agenda on the constitution and the economy.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem the Brown is able to do that. And I don't see how they could now easily change leader without the party tearing itself apart and racing into an election.

So it's a slow death under Brown or a short sharp one now under whoever. Which should they choose?

I suppose the only remaining question is whether Brown can limp on until the election, or whether there will now be a steady erosion of authority until he's forced out in 6 months' time. That would surely be the worst outcome