Dear friends, comment posters and readers,

Apologies for the lack of the usual daily rant.

It’s not because I’m trying to adhere to my ‘no news’ vow, it’s because I’ve been hit by the ‘perfect storm’ of industrial-strength brain fog combined with an alpine-sized writer’s block and yet another incipient common cold.

Today then you’ll have to talk amongst yourselves. Before I go, for all you news aficionados, here’s the link to the front pages compilation presented by Auntie Beeb.

As Scarlett O’Hara used to say: ‘tomorrow is another day’. Hopefully I’ll be able tome back with the ‘normal service’ .