Hi Pixie, I'm just on a break from AB at the moment -- at least posting, although I'm still looking into what others are saying from time to time. Glad to see that you (and a few others) have noticed my absence!
I posted in v-e's thread because I could hardly not pay my respects to a long-standing and much-to-be-missed member of AB, and I'm posting here to say thanks to you for commenting on my absence, but apart from that I'll be on a break for a while longer yet I expect.