Absent Without Leave

I am sorry to say this is (once again) a quick post.

Unfortunately, I have been a little unwell.

I hasten to add it is nothing serious.

I managed to split one of my teeth in two on the weekend. No high diving or anything dramatic involved, just a tooth that had been root-canalled about 12 months ago.
I hadn’t had a chance (or the money) to get it crowned. It must have been brittle and it split when I was eating some cheese and crackers.

Hmm, maybe crackers are better named than they should be.

Anyway this led to a marathon sitting in the dentist’s chair a few days ago as the dentist struggled to get the recalcitrant tooth out of my head.

Then to really make my week the wound decided to get infected.

So I have been suffering enough pain and discomfort to stop me thinking and hence writing (which includes blogging).

I have been absent without leave from the blogosphere for nearly a week.

I want to apologise for a few failings stemming from this:
I haven’t posted on my book news as because of the above my book has been on hold;
second, I have been neglecting my responses to all your wonderful comments on my blog, I feel really bad about this as I appreciate the time everyone takes;
finally, although I have been lurking around many of your blogs, I have barely commented at all.

So please accept my apologies, I hope to be back on deck in the next few days.

Until then a few piccies that I took last weekend.These are the Woolshed Falls near Beechworth in central Victoria. There hasn’t been much rain up there just recently, but there was just enough water going over the falls to make them worth pointing a camera at.