*knock knock knock* Is this thing on?

I suspect this medium is ill-suited to my discursive posting style. If anyone is actually following this, please let me know by posting a comment. Otherwise, I shall stop.

This reminds me of my dearly departed mother-in-law's letter to her daughter, along the lines of "I haven't heard from you. Are you receiving my letters. Please let me know if this is so" and in pencil "or not so"...