Jayne, perhaps it's down to shell-shock, or 'there was silence in heaven for about the space of half an hour', or a large number of Thanksgiving hangovers thinning out the trans-Atlantic traffic.
Congratulations and gnashing envy to all three, not forgetting yourself a few months ago. I'm sure Martin's reference to a butt for Bazza was purely in the poet's perquisite sense with no submarine sub-text in the competition-reducing Duke of Clarence one.
This will do wonders for the LitRev's subscription-list!
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