First of all, my apologies to any of you who have been trying to access my website over the last couple of weeks. Apparently the plucky British small business which was hosting it has collapsed under the strain and so my sysadmin Tom has judiciously decided to move me to a giant French corporation of the too-big-to-fail variety. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

The other thing that has happened is that my mother died two weeks ago and my blogging has since been incapacitated amongst much else. My aim is to be back next month, with probably a different set of priorities to the ones I mentioned at the start of the year.

I have set up a JustGiving page for St Barnabas Hospice, who looked after my Mum so brilliantly in the last week of her life and who, along with the rest of the hospice sector, are going through an extremely difficult time financially at the moment.

Best wishes all.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/hazel-foster?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL&utm_campaign=015