12 days of nothing

I wondered whether the withdrawal symptoms I'd been suffering were to do with a lack of coffee in the house but then realised that it was twelve whole days since I had published anything here. Lots of reading of other people's postings, a fairish amount of tagging "I must come back to this so that I can decide whether to tell others about it", and NOTHING to show for it. "You should be ashamed of yourself" was a favourite saying of my mother's - and she was, as always, perfectly correct.