Thanks for your concern, and sorry to cause it. How do you leave a forum otherwise? Announcements of such intentions result in discussions...
Anyway, I'm not entirely gone. Nine months of hard, physical, mostly solitary work plus anaemia was tiring and required all I had, but the anaemia is now fixed and the work is about finished and I have a good adventure planned and several backups in case the first doesn't work out.
I was getting tired of my own voice. I liked the silence. I'll probably go back to it, looking in here from time to time. I regard many of you here as friends (which you should remember if you're passing by Devon), and I have benefited greatly from our years of interactions, so I'll write again when I have something to say. Hopefully, in a post from Latvia.
No slipping out the back or hopping on a bus for you!