No, I haven’t joined the Spanish Army; I gave at the office here, 47 years ago. And the title is slightly misleading, I confess.

It’s not that I don’t want to write, but that, if you want to write to me, or comment on a post of mine, you have to be registered with wordpress.com and logged in.

The reason for this stonewalling is that the Akismet spam filter that my publisher wordpress.com has provided me has been overwhelmed, so that I am being deluged with spam, that the filter isn’t catching. I’m not surprised; the hackers and spammers and internet criminals routinely outwit the guardians.

Sorry for the inconvenience.