Aaargh! Apologies once more for comment spam

Our server has stopped talking to the Akismet server again, with the result that comment spam is once more getting through. We’ve put in an urgent request to our IT people to reset it, and in the meantime have switched to moderated comments so that it’s only us who have to deal with the stuff, and not everyone who either takes the feed from this blog or reads it.

Hopefully, things should be back to normal service shortly.

Our apologies, and many thanks for your forebearance!