There’s no point in me beating about the bush on this one: I am absolutely terrible at replying to emails. Days, weeks, months – years even – can slip by before I get around responding. I don’t know how other people do it. Facebook too, I’m bloody awful.

I do try, honestly I do, but as time goes by, and I come in contact with more people, my problem increases exponentially. (This isn’t an apology, by the way, nor an excuse, just an explanation). And there’s no selectivity to it – it’s everyone, from old friends, to new acquaintances, colleagues – the lot.

It might have something to do with being a teacher, and erstwhile writer – I do like to have my text ‘just so’, and correspondence falls precisely in that category. I can’t hurry it, or it’ll end up wrong.

How do I blog then? Narcissism, and safety in the belief that no-one reads it!