The Excuse du Jour

It's the memsahib. She's taken the entire month of June off and it hasn't been a vacation. The project list was as long as your arm. The shopping trips have been prodigious. Not the purchases, mind you. Just the "shopping". And we're not through yet. We await further visits from a painter, a plumber, a guy who puts up awnings, and other things that I have forgotten at the moment but will no doubt be reminded of in the fulness of time.

And that's why you've been looking at St Anne's reel for a week and a half. (Nice tune,though, isn't it.)