I haven’t showed up on this blog for ages. Hardly at all this year, I thought, judgementally wagging a finger at myself.

But then I took a look, and as it turns out, it’s not true. I did post quite a few times, earlier this year. But then, come the end of May, bupkes. Well, apart from the invitation to come to Art in the Garden, and that only went up because I’d promised to advertise the show on social media (it was part of the...