I suppose I have been conspicuous by my absence here but can only claim exceptional backlog of work as my excuse. Everything seems to happen at once. Someone gave me a lovely big carpet that I have nowhere near the strength to deal with and anyway was snowed in for weeks. Fortunately some kind friends with landrover and trailer managed to get out of their farm and fetch it and it is piled up in the dining room until such time as they have a chance to lay it. Another friend has been putting bookshelves on my wall upstairs for string books for sale. All of this is somewhat inhibiting to any activity as I am quite disabled as regards knees anyway. At last the shelves are done so I have been cataloguing books in sensible order. Then, hopefully, I shan't spend hours looking for a book someone has bought and I have to post in two days.Then on the computer I have been formatting a book I translated ready for the printers. My last book was formatted by someone else but this time pride insisted I should be less of a wimp and learn to do it myself. I'm afraid I regarded PDF as some kind of nasty devilish device. Anyway the book is ready and I've been trying very hard to get to grips with photoshop in order to do the cover. I painted a nice picture for it only to discover that I'd done it on A3 watercolour paper and my printer, as I knew perfectly well, was A4. Finally I photographed it and have got as far as the right sized file with the picture the right size for the front. Now I hope the long suffering friend who talked me through all the text part will tell me what and how to do next.When I have survived that, I'll come back here and be a more regular bloggist.