Explanation

Well, mightily I laboured into the night on Tuesday to produce a post worthy of silencing my detractors and get the blogging flowing again, and duly I came up with a whole bunch of nonsense. However, for a day, I have been unable to get the thing actually onto the Net. This is because Blogger in its new incarnation now has some kind of thing it calls a 'long post error' and goes 'ah, duh' when you get too verbose on it - apparently. It is easy to see how I might fall victim to it, what with my penchant for waffle. Luckily I had backed my waffle up, hoping to enjoy it later cold with some strawberry jam. At any rate, after this, I tried to get other stuff to post explaining what was going on, and how my big main post was in limbo and how it would hopefully be coming along soon, and in response as a bit of a variation from going 'ah, duh', Blogger went 'unnnnhhhh'. Nothing would post. So after being a bit of a thickie for a while I found the delete post thing and went back to square one and tried everything again but still no joy. So I have given up and broken Tuesday's post into 3 pieces (after experimentation, I found that two parts split down the middle was still too large, at which point I was ready to throw Blogger into a rubber room and hurl the key from the nearest, er, parapet) which are now down there largely unedited from when I actually wrote them. You'll just have to ignore the breaks and the fact that the date says 'Thursday' 3 times; lies lies, it's all lies (except for this, which I really did write Thursday. Or did I?).

Anyway enjoy, or not. I'm off to have a well deserved lie down. It's frickin' freezin', and besides which, during the winter food is scarce, and we were forced to eat Robin's minstrels.