Apology for lack of response to e-mails

I apologise for not responding to all of those who have e-mailed me over the past five or six days at the address given in the panel on the right. I have been unable to maintain an internet connection for longer than ten minutes at a stretch for almost a week. There is something dreadfully amiss with the telephone lines in the (very remote) part of the Northern Cape where I am situated. Along with other local computer users, I have raised the problem with TelkomSA. But I am not optimistic about a speedy solution. In the meantime, all I can do is soldier on and ask for readers' forbearance.