George Michael, recovering nicely from pneumonia that nearly killed him late last year, reached out to fans via Twitter today (30 January) while on a holiday to update them on the resumption of his aborted concert tour.

'Realistically I can't see my vocal cords being being ready till the summer, but then I have to think about people losing out if they are on their summer hols. So September seems the most likely,' he writes.

'Sorry about that everyone,' he adds. 'Rest assured I will use the time wisely as in working on improving the show, mixing the live tracks, finishing brand new tracks! Pneumonia may have been a bastard thing to go thru, but normally when I suffer you guys benefit somehow, don't you think :) That's just how it goes in GM world. God's little joke. Long may it continue :).'

The openly gay 48-year-old singer revealed after his release from AKH hospital in Vienna, Austria, just before Christmas that doctors spent ‘three weeks keeping him alive’.

He had to cancel all the remaining dates on his Symphonica Tour after being hospitalized but he intends to go back on the road when he is well enough and play all the shows.

Michael does not say exactly where he is on holiday although it was reported last week that he and boyfriend Fadi Fawaz had spent four days in Amsterdam.

'Still enjoying a little time in the southern hemisphere, voice is slowly recovering, spent the afternoon writing in the sun,' he tweeted today. 'Have no idea whats going on in the real world, which is just how I like it. Jet skied today, closest thing I'll get to driving for now :( First real holiday in many years. Bliss. Not the slightest chance of controversy. I may have to flash room service or summat.'

Michael appears is in far better spirits now than in a series of tweets earlier this month. In those, he blasted a group called Christians for a Moral America for praying for him to die from the pneumonia.