Apologies for the late and apparently slothful start to my blogging week. The slothfulness was merely apparent. I lost my internet access at home, was plunged into the choppy waters of insecurity and agitation, and reduced to wandering the streets of Manchester looking for help and even sympathy. But normblog struggles on from afar, and word now reaches me that things may have improved back where I awoke to a bright but deceiving day.