Apologies for my apparent intermittent posting.

With invited house guests in France, it is incumbent on me to be a participative host and I can only slip away during afternoon ‘siesta’ times (when not afflicted with a need to rest my eyes too!).

We return to Edinburgh on Saturday and will (nearly) be in the normal routine, except that Wednesday-Thursday, I am in Manchester at the UK History of Economic Thought annual conference, but I hope to avoid the usual internet connection problems.

Also, it is fairly quiet on the Google Alerts from with a Congressman Adam Smith (D) dominating the flow of alerts, rather than the Adam Smith born in Kirkcaldy in 1723.