I'm trying to make it a reality but people keep putting jobs in front of me for consideration!
I've been off work now for about a month in total and it's been great. I spoke to a recruiter a few weeks back to get the lay of the land, and he's been throwing jobs my way since. Good ones. Really good ones.
It's thrown a spanner in the works (buggered stuff up) as far as plans to disappear for a while as I need to follow it through and see what's up. I don't have the ability to not work indefinitely, I'd figured until the end of January, but I also don't want to miss out on a potentially great opportunity either.
So...I'm seeing how it shakes out over the next week or so and will know a little more then...I am, after all, a very responsible dude.