no updates for a while

no updates for a while as i've been stuck in the technological styx
that is my mum's house in Edinburgh, so I guess the first thing to do
is to wish you readers (all one of them), a happy new year...

HAPPY NEW YEAR

If you were watching the TV you
probably saw that the Edinburgh Hogmanay celebrations were cancelled at
the last minute (about 30mins before they were due to start), and my
celebrations weren't quite as expected. Combine that with some other
bits and pieces it was not a very happy new year. So to all of those
who were on the other end of my being narked the subsequent afternoon,
apologies. I want to take a moment for one of my friends, in Edinburgh,
and all of her friends who are having a worse new year than me. All I
can say is, you reminded me that no matter how bad I think my life is,
there is always some one who has to deal with worse, and that you have
my sympathies in your loss.
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