This Week's Berwickshire News - an apology

Due to my inability to plan my life sufficiently - I totally omitted to acquire a BN last Thursday and have been ensconced in 'that England' close to Wales, where people speak of strange items (bread buns are called "batches" or "barms" depending on whom you ask) and where shop assistants examine Scotia's finest banknotes with a diligence of which Sherlock Holmes would be proud - before declaring "we don't take Sterling" on a previous occasion and crucially where copies of the Berwickshire News are rarer than the excrement of an undulating equine quadruped.

Tomorrow I shall seek to acquire a BN to resume normal service