There hath he lain for ages

[Tyr]

So where did you disappear to for a decade? And is there still gonna be parole or a curfew for a while?

Nothing so embarrassing. I migrated.

It''s a European tradition to head toward the setting sun. One tribe moves, pushes into the range of the next one west, kills a few and enslaves whoever else didn't flee fast enough. The survivors keep retreating until they hit the Atlantic coast and there they have to stop, backs to the wall. Depending on which side of the Bristol Channel they flee, their descendants end up either Welsh or Cornish. Either way they build stone circles, mark the solstices and wait out the remainder of history serving cream teas to holiday-makers.

And that, in a nutshell, covers my last ten years. It's a really odd part of the world, there's a time gradient, I'm back in the 1970s but with broadband.