Typical. We were supposed to be devoting this week to resuming our work in the studio. And then it snowed. Asti and Ty have been snowed in but are surviving on the contents of their bins – still, ain't it pretty!

Next week we're going to the studio in Cheltenham to finalise the setup for our playback party, and to work out how many people can fit in. Please see the News page for more info.

As you may have noticed on the News page, a few of us have been Moby Dick. Del and STC have been getting quite competitive in their symptoms. Del even claims to have cracked a rib coughing. STC countered with total loss of hearing, smell and speech, and a strange ability to inadvertently change the TV channel by sneezing. When asked whether he could sing yet , STC seemed unable to answer.

But we're on the mend and are going to try and make up some lost ground in the re-recording of our last song, 'More'.

Typically , we've since rediscovered a song that we wrote in early December and think is a little gem. It makes use of Buffy Sainte-Marie's ethereal voice played backwards, with STC singing the refrain over a lovely orchestral fade, accompanied by dancing fairies, an indeterminate number of small furry woodland creatures and the distant thrum of moths.

We're considering whether to include it on the new album or make it an extra track for the Limited Edition.

We recently uploaded to YouTube a short clip of the band jamming during the recording of 'Plenty' . Click here for the link .

Meetings surrounding the release continue. Wish it would stop raining in support of my pledge to walk to each one.

The design of the Limited Edition looks great. We are going with the Three Feet image but the text is quite different from the picture on this site.

Del and Nicola are poking their cameras in everywhere now and are actually moderately annoying. That is until you see the results. We will put some new photographs up shortly.