Update

This is me getting to enjoy life again.

Apologies for the silence, folks, but my health has been worse than ever – I’ve had to spend lots of days in bed, necking painkillers.

However, I’m finally seeing doctors on a regular basis and getting the right treatments at last. (No more begging for lifts to hospital appointments – yay!) For the time being, I’m almost free of pain and the brain-fog has cleared. I can even do some walking around the streets here.

I’ve been getting on with the Elfin Diary Archives, but it’s going to be a massive task and I wonder if I’ll ever finish. And I’m afraid I may never republish the Todmorden Tales. I’ve already dumped two of the stories because they were either hideously outdated, not at all funny, and / or just very poor plots*, and I think I may dump one or two more. Anyway, I’m finding it very hard to work up any enthusiasm for editing / rewriting them.

*TBF, I consider that at least four of the remaining stories are fabulous pieces of comic writing, and deserve republishing.