Hiatus 2: Back in the Habit

Dead! Dead! And never called me Mother!*

Well, perhaps not. This blog may be experiencing a temporary bout of death, but it is definitively not buried. I envision a fine resurrection some time soon. How thematically-appropriate, with Easter just around the corner.

Where next for the young traveller? Only time will tell. And then I shall too, at some length.

*This phrase has been knocking around in my head since I first read it - I think in an encyclopaedia - way back when. Essentially a byword (by-phrase?) for melodrama, it harks back to the mid-19th century, and the stage adaptation of Ellen Wood's East Lynne. If this somewhat leftfield reference to the melodramatic nature of Victorian theatre leaves you confused (and you would be well within your rights to be feeling so), you can read more in this blog post.