A disruptive configuration of Easter, school holidays and a maddening tech problem explains why my output here has been low and intermittent recently. And tomorrow I go on holiday for nine days. Yes, nice timing. It's all Gordon Brown's fault, of course. Fancy calling a general election the very week I'm away. Happily, though, there will be plenty of coverage of campaigning in London's constituencies and boroughs during my absence.
If you haven't already found and bookmarked it, click here to discover a new Guardian page that pulls together the cream of the capital's independent bloggers on politics and local issues. They also pop up on the widget down the right hand margin of this blog. Recent highlights include Stanmore Politics on battleground Harrow, Freewheeler on (lack of) election fever in Waltham Forest and Chris Underwood on a hustings in Hammersmith from which one leading candidate was conspicuously absent. Top blogging. Let's have more of it. By for now. I'll be fully back in business by the nineteenth.
