Politaholic on holiday

There will be no blogging for the next few weeks. I am on a cycling holiday in Holland. This is a minor triumph. Some months ago I had a cycling accident and suffered a dislocated shoulder and a "rotating cuff injury" which required an operation and quite a lot of pysiotherapy. I still can't raise my left arm high (I suffer from "reverse Strangelove syndrome": he struggled to keep his down, and I can't get mine up, so to speak), but at least I can ride the bike and I am very thankful for the NHS. So its beer and cycling for the next few weeks.