I was apologising here yesterday for my absence during October: rightly so, or so I considered then.

And, while I was missing, I entertained many a thought - or, perhaps, a thought many a time - that the blog (this blog) is little more than a foolish vanity.

But then, when I made my way back, I found that I had missed a comment on, Libya..... of 23.02.11 , posted on 27 September.

And, to anyone with sufficient interest or observation to do the sums, it would be apparent that the commenter, was making contact after a separation of fifty years!

So maybe, after all, the blog is vindicated - and sod the vanity!