What happened to December and January

Yet again it's been an absolute age since I last posted a blog entry. Since my last one, I've been on holiday to New Zealand, and attempted to re-claim against my Income Replacement Plan for stopping working again. I've also completely stopped taking my Gabapentin tablets, which I think were contributing to my memory loss and inability to concentrate, despite the doctors saying that such a low dose could not be causing my problems. I have noticed that it's a little easier to remember things since I've stopped taking it, but by the same token, I have been getting more phantom pains. If not taking the tablets really improves my memory etc., then it's worth the occasional twinge of pain. There's a balance to be found here, so if the pain is tolerable I'll stay off the tablets.
We went to New Zealand from mid-December to mid-January, and took over 1,000 photos between us. We hired a camper van, and despite saying at the start that if we got fed up of sleeping in it we would stay in a B&B from time to time, we were only in a hotel on the day we arrived, and for two days over Christmas. We couldn't post any photos while we were there, firstly because of the number we took, secondly because our phone service provider didn't have a data agreement with any of the local providers, and finally, we were largely out in the middle of no-where, which only had basic voice mobile coverage.
I'm in the middle of editing my photos, giving them dates and descriptions in the filenames, so that we don't forget what they are of, and so they will show in order when we show them to people. I think I'm going to post the best of them in a Picassa Web Album, because I use Picassa on my PC to manage my photos, and it seems the easiest way of sharing them. I thought of using Flickr, but I decided to stick with a system I'm already familiar with. It'll take some time to re-label and sort the piccies, but I'll post an address here once it's sorted.