Dear Blog
I have sorely neglected you. I am sorry. I have been distracted by other things, on the PC, and in real life. I have been unfaithful, flirting with Twitter and yet imposing Twitter on you.
Paul Newman said, on the subject of infidelity, 'why go out for hamburger when you have steak at home'.
I don't eat meat, but in blogging fidelity terms, I have not only gone out for hamburger, neglecting the steak at home, but I have actually procured takeaway hamburger to eat out of the paper wrappings at home while the steak watches forlorn and neglected.
Enough of stretched meat-based metaphors: people might get funny ideas about what goes on in my personal life!
There, it wasn't so difficult to open up the editing panel and write something. The key to curing writer's block is to write something, anything. Not worrying much about quality, the key is to write something, anything, that vaguely makes sense, and then, in the famous words of Wellington "Publish and be damned"