I am home again, thanks to the efforts of pre­ten­tious­geek who drove me here and tucked me in…

To those of you who worked out that it wasn’t minor if I was in hos­pital that long, you’re right, but I didn’t want to panic anyone until I knew what was going on. I have a frac­tured rib and an injured spine, but noth­ing so ser­i­ous that I can’t walk. I’m also pretty bruised. I haven’t seen Astrid yet, but reports are she’s pretty beaten up too.

Thanks to every­one for the mes­sages and espe­cially those who phoned and saved me from being bored to death.

Enorm­ous thanks are due to crystal_storm who sat by me for many hours, to dai­syn­erd who dropped in (thank good­ness you were in the coun­try) and then phoned me from the air­port on her way home to Hol­land, to steam_punk, Nat, gypsyam­ber, the_tao, nuwishas_tail, iucounu and Krys­tal, who all vis­ited, and Matt who left a lovely mes­sage on my phone from the air­port on his way to Holland.

Anyhow, right now a very pro­tect­ive Jezebel is sit­ting on my frac­tured rib, so if you’ll excuse me…