Hello All, I’m back – just.

I have been blogging over the last week or so, just not hitting the ‘publish’ button. It’s all been very beige, shall we say.

So, here I am attempting to publish something – anything -for the benefit of all those getting RSI from checking in 4 or 5 times a day to see if there is anything new up here. Yes, I know who you are, where you’re from and how often you are checking. Big brother loves the blogosphere.

In fact, for these people’s benefit, let’s visit the little orange button at the top left hand side of the screen … just under the masthead. Yes, that’s it, the one that appears next to the words “subscribe to feed”.

Can I suggest you take advantage of that and lodge me somewhere in your menu bar. That way you can just click on the button and see the titles of the last 5 posts – if there’s one you haven’t read, click on the link in the list and “Hey Presto!” you’ll be magically whisked off to read it. I promise.

In the meantime, my room has been “fogged” and I am no longer plagued by what turned out to be gnats. In Australia we call them sand-flies. I hate them – they love me. I’m still healing. On the day my room was fumigated I headed off to the Tower of the Americas on what was a mild day. Unfortunately, it turned into a scorcher and I have been recovering ever since. Hence the lack lustre writing efforts.

On the bright side, that day I also explored La Villita (the old city of San Antonio, now an arts precinct) and found a shop with a cat! A real live, purring feline. He was asleep on a garden chair outside and was quite happy to let me pat him for a while. It made my week, really.

I miss my cat. Can you tell?

I’m going to attempt to write more novel now, so that’s it for today. Hopefully I’ll be more sparkling in the next post.

ttfn,

S.