I know readers will welcome him back, and also welcome back my colleague and friend Gabrielle Chan who will be driving the live blog next week while I gather my brain cells.
I leaned on two heavyweight finance guys, Investing Editor Matt Schifrin and Executive Editor Neil Weinberg, while Jenna and I gathered more string on Tilton's business and legal entanglements.
While writing this article, I gathered my thoughts through a version of the same principle: having collated my notes onscreen, I printed said notes, scribbled all over the resulting printout, argued with myself in the margins, placed exclamation marks next to key points, spread out the scrawled result – and from this landscape hewed a (hopefully) coherent argument.
Once my head was in, I used one arm to brace myself on the edge of the freezer while, with the other arm, I gathered enough strength to violently jam the metal scoop into the vat of ice cream.
A French military helicopter circled overhead while I frantically gathered my belongings in case I needed to move in the middle of the night.
On Twitter, Derren Brown has urged people to "complain where it matters", with a link to the Press Complaints Commission website; while Stephen Fry tweeted: "I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathsome and inhumane".
I gather that while I was punching my computer, Lamela escaped with a forearm/elbow on Paye and Sandro came close to giving away a penalty.
After a while, they gathered up their things and headed for the theatre.
While I hesitated, they gathered their things, he held the door open for her, she rolled their tattered luggage out, and they left.
