Oops, no Monday post yet — how can that be? But here’s a photo!

Oops, no Monday post until now — could the author possibly have been on holiday, swanning around the courntryside and playing hookie?

Well, that’s what happens when you live inside Middle Earth, you know, sometimes you just have to go there and back again, although I must admit I’m looking forward to the day when I bring home the chests of treaure!

No cargoes of “…diamonds, emeralds, amethysts, … and gold moidores” (Cargoes, John Masefield) this time, alas, but there was some consumption of “de...