A few of you have complained that your comments weren't showing up on my blogs.  Good News: I have found them!  Apparently I had a spam filter that was running in the background.  I just installed an updated version of it, and to my surprise, it already had hundreds of comments in its bin.  Weeding through them, I found some insightful thoughts from you, which I'm sorry took so long to get on the blog!  

The most recent on was from Mel on how many eggs she's keeping in the air at the moment.  There are also some from Sha on cul-de-sacs, some very good stuff on my first impressions in America from Sarah and Pam, and an amusing one on eating Swedes from Ebba.  

Sorry about that everyone.  Things should work better now!