With thanks to the silent readers and to the readers who send messages. My daughter tells me that the silent readers are (by the young, who know these things) called "lurkers" – so I am a lurker myself, since I never make comments on the blogs I follow. There is no comments function here (and in that sense all Spencer Alley readers are lurkers by default) but the encouraging emails never fall on fallow ground either, and I am grateful to those who take the time and trouble to send them.
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