All Choked Up

The big problem with “re-instating” around 2,000 book titles on Amazon (see previous post about the Internet hijacking) has been the huge blockage suffered by our email server. Every time a book is re-listed an email is automatically generated by Amazon and sent to my company’s email server. The email server then copies the email to several different addresses including my personal Hotmail account. You can do the maths! That’s at least 6,000 emails swimming around in a short period of time. Result – online indigestion. Like a blocked drain we have had to repeatedly switch the thing “on” and off”. Only now (a full three days after we finished the re-listing process) are we beginning to get a free flow of regular spam - intermingled with the occasional order - again.

Anyway, enough of technology! I’m still choked up with my coughing fits (now in their third week). The blazing straw-stack has eventually been extinguished after the better part of seven days. The wife has been given a Star Wars “storm trooper” boot by the local hospital in the hope that it will clear her tendon trouble. She clumps about the house in this thing (occasionally pausing to inflate it with a special pump), terrifying the cat and the bantams, and giving everyone plenty of warning about impending appearances. The daughter who is still in residence has decided to diet (so no more sloping off to the pub). It’s all too much. I feel in need of a wholly undeserved holiday