Eh? Wossat?

Until further notice, I won't be doing any of the following:

• watching tv
• listening to music
• listening to the radio
• holding conversations
• socialising
• chatting on the phone
  
• attending the writers' group
• walking down the road without being paranoid that I'm not picking up essential signals
• ditto re shopping
• responding to people who talk to me fom another room
• ditto re those who talk behind me
• ditto re those who mutter, murmur or mumble

I will, however, be doing plenty of the following:

• reading
• writing
• blogging
• being irritable
• appearing to ignore people

So, what's this all about? Well, you see my Eustachian tubes never grew up, with the result that they don't drain properly, leaving me ultra vulnerable to ear infections and sustained periods of deafness. Some excellent homoeopathy a few years back worked wonders, but that last virus proved too much for me poor tubes - I have about 5% hearing right now. This could last days or weeks before it clears.

If you only know me via the blogosphere, it will be business as usual. If you know me in Real Life, you'll now understand why I seem to be giving you the cold shoulder. I simply didn't hear you ...