Hiatus, I’m afraid

I’m sorry to come back in this new year of 2024 only to announce a stop, but, January has really hit hard. Quite apart from publication deadlines set as if maliciously to coincide with the beginning of teaching – the worst bit of which is that I set at least one of them – there has also been a loss in my family, which entailed a long drive to and from a deathbed, after which the car dramatically failed its MOT, and now there’s still the geographically distant but temporally imminent funeral to go to, involving coordinating bits of the family who normally don’t speak to each other, plus which… Well, that might be most of it, but it’s enough. I can’t, honestly, see when I can get a substantive post out before February, and so I should at least let you all know, and then I can submerge in slightly better conscience to deal with things. Sorry for "deprioritising" you like this, but it’s just one of those times when everything that can give must do so that everything which can’t can happen. Au revoir…