I put my back out late last week and spent most of this week on an exciting cocktail of painkillers and muscle relaxants, so if you had any strange comments from me or didn't get any strange comments when you were expecting some, that is probably why.

By yesterday I'd recovered enough to visit the Greatest Steampunk Exhibition at the Kew Bridge ( Read more... )

It's been, by my standards of late, a whirlwind few months.

All began with an expedition ( to find silver, tea, and pearls )