Back in Blighty

We've been away in Kuala Lumpur, then Melaka, over the long weekend for Chinese New Year. The computer at our house in KL has a problem with its modem which means I've not been on-line there since the end of last year. Since that time we've not been around long enough to get it fixed. And in Melaka, at Noi's parents' house, the computer is pretty much in constant demand from various members of Noi's family. Hence the lack of postings in recent days. If I had posted I would probably have burbled on about the excellence of Les Murray's Fredy Neptune, the general goodness of Matthew Kneale's English Passengers and Alain de Botton's Status Anxiety, and the wonderful voice and songs of Sandy Denny. There were other fine things I enjoyed over the last five days or so and I hope to get round to saying a bit more about them between now and the weekend. But it's already fairly late here and there's work tomorrow so it's time to hit the sack.