My apologies but I won't be able to post my offering in any timely fashion. Last month we found out we were being asked to move because for the second time this year our current landlords want to sell the place we are living in. This has forced us into trying to buy a house when we weren't prepared. My entire month has been spent looking for houses, trying to arrange mortgages, meeting with lawyers, so on and so forth.

I should have pulled out of the finishathon as soon as I realised we were moving again, but I held out vain hope even to today that I would be able to finish in time. The story is half written, and will one day be posted on my journal, but not, I think, before we move, which could be any day between now and March.

Again, I apologise to keravonsen for not giving earlier notification, and understand perfectly if she wants to ban me forever from future particpation.

Best wishes to everyone else for their stories.