"Silence is ambiguous." Former colleague from TheOldPlace.

She was quite right.

Lunch today with a very regular correspondent who seemed to be have been a bit curt on the phone and then carefully not writing on return from a two week holiday. Turns out they'd simply failed to mention they were then off on two conferences and have only just returned.

Keep writing, keep posting, keep talking.... I get the message. (But it won't be in this forum if Blogger doesn't sort itself out soon.)