Stumbling across a deserted beach, he came upon something
projecting from the sand: a blog, no less, abandoned by some ancient
civilisation whose memory is long forgotten. Did anyone read it? Did anyone, as
it faded from memory, check, from time to time, to see if life stirred within
its cold embers?
As Jimmy Hendrix said at the Isle of
Wight ,” it has been a long time”: over 18 months since we last
wrote on this blog and nearly that long since we did anything whatsoever to
advance the project.
There were reasons, good and bad, for the hiatus, ranging
from work and rowing commitments – both Joe and I have been coaching squads –
to sheer inertia. Some say it’s fear of completion: apparently, garages throughout
New Zealand
have nearly-completed-but-not-quite-boats, planes, coffee tables, tunnels under
the wire and other projects in them, victims of some strange force that holds
the builder back from doing that very last bit.
I’m not convinced that we are
suffering from anything so complicated, but we’ll carry on looking for excuses…
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