I think my New Year's resolution - in April - will be to check here more often.
Certainly more often than twice a year, that's just lazy naughty bad. Partly because it's rude to all the lovely people who took the time to comment on my work (thank you!) and partly because it's pant-fillingly daunting to see the DeviantArt 'messages' click into 4-figures.
Blimey.

Just in case: if you need an answer to something in the same week (rather than 'at some point in the next 8 months') it's probably best to just email.
Or just paint your message on the side of a glacier and wait for it to inexorably inch its way across the planet in the hope it will pass my house. Still probably slightly quicker.

PS - Oh, but if you do find a glacier, don't lick it. You may hope for the sweet tingle of iced raspberry, but what you'll get is a giant granite-studded push-pop with an overtone of damp mammoth.
It was something of a disappointment.

All right, that's all for now, as you were.
xx