Update

A quick update on recent developments, and the reason for the lack of entries recently, follows:

M-I-L eventually recovered from the bout of the sh!ts (which lasted for several hours). However, after all of that shenanigans she actually became ill for real. Initially we took the assertions of being ill again with the usual pinch of salt (i.e. one the size of Cheshire) but it became clear that something was actually wrong with her this time ("The Boy who Cried Wolf" http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/boy.html comes vividly into focus here!)

(As an aside, the moral of "The Boy who Cried Wolf" is supposed to be "Never tell lies". WRONG. The real moral is "Never tell the same lie twice" - an important distinction).

Anyway, the upshot is that it may be a while before there are any new posts.