It’s difficult to know how much I can safely put here. I can only hope that the team find this website sooner rather than later (obviously they hadn’t found it when I left the base, but that doesn’t preclude someone stumbling over it the very next day). I’ll try to be reasonably enigmatic – but obviously I want to make sense to you guys in the team, while hoping any outsiders who come across this (and I realise the dangers inherent in posting on the public domain) are just mystified. I’m also concerned that I mustn’t give too many details away, or else I may create a paradox (I think that’s the right technical word).

I’m also conscious that the team will want to know how to get hold of me (although how they will achieve that is technically beyond me). At the moment I’m trying to establish a permanent address – for now, comments on this blog will reach me.

Finance is, naturally, my greatest worry. Fortunately I’m fit and healthy, so I can do labouring/cleaning jobs for cash (no bank account, and with no official status here, no way of getting one. I’m just glad that identity cards haven’t been introduced yet – what I shall do when they arrive is a puzzle at the moment).

Betting would seem to be the obvious way to make money, if only I could remember what happened. I’ve never been a great one for sporting events, and I certainly can’t remember things like who won the 05 Grand National. Fortunately King Charles and Camilla hadn’t announced their engagement when I arrived here, so that was one quick certainty which boosted my funds. My next big bet will be on the May election – if I remember right (and opinion polls in today’s paper seem to bear this out) the crushing defeat of Labour came as a complete surprise (although in retrospect, of course, dragging Britain into the Second Afghan War had spelled the end of Blair) and I should be able to get pretty good odds on that. But only if I can survive for another three months.