I'd like to start this post with an apology to my loyal followers... all 13 of you :P I'm sorry for being so long-winded and linguisticly indulgent. I've just finished reading a friend's blog of her time here in Maastricht and it is succinct, witty, to the point but observational but overall, as Goldie Locks would put it, juuuuust right :)
I on the other hand have been carried away lately with the freedom the internet affords in terms of space. After 5.5 years of cutting copy to fit newspaper holes and trying to make every word count the luxury of an online ramble has got the better of me. Which should not be a surprise to anyone who's spent any time with me in person and tried to get a word in edgeways! Regardless, I fully intended to keep these posts short, sharp and to the point when I started (60 posts ago!) ... but then this blog became a kind of record for posterity as much as an exercise in a different kind of writing. And I didn't want to have to cut anything anymore in case I was one day too senile to remember these times.
The consequence I realise though is that it's probably not always very readable unless you're my parents and then you have to spend the time wading through it anyway! So, from this post on I will try valiantly to keep my loquaciousness in check!
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