By way of an apology…

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There are times – of course there are – when all I can do is hold up my hands and say I’m sorry. Scheduled posts create the impression that I am ‘in the room’ whilst, in reality, I am actually, for a hatful of reasons… indisposed, I suppose. My posts appear with a metronomic regularity (for which I can only offer an auxillary apology) whilst, by and large, I am unable to show even the basic simple courtesy of reading what you – my fellow word-wranglers – have slaved to produce. I can currently do nothing more than apologise for this – which I hereby do.

I always try to respond to comments – not always as fulsomely as they deserve – because I feel that they have required a very particular effort to post, and I am meticulous in my efforts never to merely ‘like’ a post I have not been able to fully read: it just feels like bad manners.

Soon I will be in a place from which I will be able to derive great joy in catching up with my reciprocal duties, and I will have the opportunity to comment more fully on what I have read. My word, you’ll regret having me back by then…

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12 thoughts on “By way of an apology…”

  1. And here you were, thinking this move would be so easy-peasy; a day or two of unpacking and you could slip back on the word processor and be seamlessly back up and running by Friday.

    Seriously, moving is less a nice new start than starting at the back of the queue. Deja vu with no sense of wonder, more that nagging feeling you’ve done this before.

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  4. I am with you about “liking” a post. A like means I have read it all the way. I try to comment when I can, as well, although sometimes the post itself is so articulate that it’s hard to come up with something to say.

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