Post? Traumatic stress.

My Mum and my younger sister have a thing at the moment where the words "Should" and "Try" are verboten. Evidently, both are extremely negative, self-defeating and close neighbours of guilt, failure and depression (the words, that is, not my Mum and sister). So, with that in mind, I won't say that I should have posted something by now, or that I'll try to get back in the habit. "Do or do not, there is no try", as some wise old Jedi once said.

So if it's OK with you, I'll just press on and we'll forget about the whole hiatus thing: you don't want to read paragraphs of me apologising, and I don't want to write them.

OK, so what has happened since the last update? Soooo very much. So much that I think just listing the events in even one or two words might have to suffice. There's been...OK...I started listing things, but stopped because:

1. There's just too much
2. I wouldn't do anything justice just by listing it here
3. I'd miss some things and don't want to unintentionally offend anyone by leaving out anything important
4. I'm not sure there's much point looking backwards over the last few months, when there are so many interesting things to talk about that are happening right now
5. Lists are overrated (and even this one is no exception).

So I'm going to end this post, rather than dwell any longer on what I haven't done. Seems a bit more positive, and I'm sure it's the approach that my Mum and my sister would gently encourage me toward. I'll save the energy, time, and keystrokes for another, more topical post soon.

ML