Ordinary fool

Just yesterday I was worrying again about Xardos. It's months since he appeared here on your blog, with your promises of further encounters with him - and then he disappeared for months and months. I speculated that he'd died a horrible death, overdosing on plutonium perhaps. Or that he'd taken his future into his own hands and gone off, without his Dick Whittington [or Mark Leicester] to seek his fortune, or a more attentive family, perhaps.

Even now, seeing him here on the masthead [if that's an appropriate term for the top of a blog page], I can't help but worry still, as it's the same, one-and-only picture. Why are you not taking more photos of him???

What fuels my concern is that I have some news for Xardos, and for him alone.

Please urgently send me tidings of him - even if it is the worst possible news. Better to know the truth than to live in uncertainty...

How can Xardos be in good hands if his master does not reply no matter how impassioned my pleas???