Once upon a time Blogger would tell you that it was having difficulties in publishing a post & break off. Now that icon keeps on going round & round like an ill-tempered clock & you don't know where the fuck you are.

The post below took thirteen minutes to publish. I know it took that long, since in the interim between clicking the mouse to publish & the post appearing, I managed, in the words of Stan Freberg, a favourite comedian of mine in the fifties, to boil three two-minute eggs, two three-minute eggs & make 60 cups of instant coffee.