The clocks have gone back, the long winter nights are closing in, and inspired by another worthy cause that has adopted November as a month for consistent action in the name of positive change, I have decided to launch Blovember — a month of solid blogging.

This will mean a temporary shift of pace and style with longer, with more considered posts making way for shorter, spur-of-the-moment musings. It's all a bit of an experiment and I can't guarantee it will be entirely successful, but I'll commit to writing something every day during November, and we'll see what happens.

I do also feel that I need to gain some sort of “closure” on October, a month during which this blog experienced what I'm going to call a flurry of inactivity. It's not that it was a particularly quiet month for me — there was actually quite a lot of stuff going on — it's just that none of it made it into the blog.

So, in addition to doing my level best to update the blog every day during November, I will also undertake to fill in the gaps in October. This may mean that 'new' entries start to mysteriously appear in the past. Please don't be concerned. It's just like when Skynet sent that Terminator back to the past to change the future that was actually the present. It's better if you don't think about it too much.

So that's my Blovember manifesto. I hope the change of style isn't too disorientating. At the end of the month we'll all sit down and have a review meeting to discuss how it went. You may well find that you prefer a little something to read every day than a big dollop of words every week or two (or three). On the other hand, you may decide that if I haven't got anything good to say, I shouldn't say anything at all. We'll just have to see.

Anyway, that's it for my first Blovember entry. I'll sign off now because it's getting late and I've still got a couple more messages to leave on Andrew Sachs' answering machine.