I've had you on my "favourites" side-bar for the longest time, and I had (bad Wambui!) not visited for some time. Thus I am doubly grateful, doubly astonished, and doubly honoured that a) you even read the thing I wrote in Kwani - I think that was the one article everyone else skipped over and b) that you were so gracious and complimentary about it.

I am as vulnerable to flattery as anyone else, but this comes at a particularly opportune time, as I was just deciding that the quality of my writing could be matched by my cat, and that the last decent idea I had was to grow dreadlocks, which didn't help my intellectual output. So thank you from my heart, really, for the shot in the arm that you have just given me, and my very best wishes.