Hmm, what is it with blogging academics at the moment? Most of the people on my blogroll (such as it is) seem to be in a go-slow period with their blogging at right now - Jean had to reassure [2] us she's still there; Jill signed off [3] for the northern summer once or twice; Jo's blogging has been intermittent [4] for a while as well. For me, if I don't get a good holiday early on, by the time my birthday comes around in August I'm just about out of steam for the year, and so the blog has suffered as well. So, I'm trying to remedy this with a blog post about slow blogging. Hm. This despite the fact that there's a fair bit to do and say at the moment - but perhaps I shouldn't waste all my energy for the one post?