I’m sure you’re all tearing your hair out with frustration or worry, so I apologise for not posting much. For the past week I have been on a very tiny island on the south end of the Rangiroa atoll, in French Polynesia. No internet access there. Also no electricity.

In other news, it turns out that if you write a book called Last Best Gifts then the website for it gets a big surge in hits from Google searches in the weeks before Christmas, but not because people are suddenly interested in the topic.