Hello my friends and thank you all so much for your concern. I am indeed alive and well, but deluged with work at the moment. I have taken on a new class for the summer term and there's lots of prep work to do, plus a rather large freelance project has been taking up most of my other time lately. If that's not enough, I have been attending a weekend workshop in teaching fundamentals, but that is now finished. I am happy to say I PASSED!
Anyway, things will continue to be busy for me for the next couple of weeks, so if I'm not around as much as I would like to be - that's why.
Hope to be back with you all on a regular basis very soon!
cheers
Val