I'M BACK ON THE TRACK...

... having now settled into the new house in France. Getting internet connection is a slow business, though - obviously you can't get ADSL till you have a phone line but you can't get a phone line till you have a bank account, and you can't get a bank account without an appointment made quite some time in advance; and then when you have achieved a phone line you have to wait the best part of a week before your new phone number is "on the system" - and only then can you enter into a contract for internet provision... and then it can take as little as two more weeks before they actually come and install it. We're doing well: we're about halfway through this process already. Meanwhile I'm blogging from a computer in a shop in the lovely little market town of Mirande, which is less than 20 miles from the house. So thanks to the people who have sent in comments recently; I've now uploaded them and will try to offer responses next time I'm in front of this computer.

... which is more than I can say for the distribution of copies of the new Bob Dylan Encyclopedia paperback in the UK. Sadly these are delayed till early June, because they are being shipped - quite literally shipped - from the USA, so that while US readers will find the book available later this month, as announced, UK and other European readers will not. Not my fault but I'm sorry all the same.