Thank you to everyone who has commented on the blog or emailed me since I  last posted in early October.  Life since then has been difficult for many reasons; I have not  written anything creative and have taken very few photographs but I hope to return to both activities soon.

I wish all my blogging friends a happy and peaceful 2014; I have missed you! I have hundreds of posts to catch up on and I’m looking forward to thanking the people who have been kind enough to give me awards during my absence from blogging.