I'm pretty happy, actually ....
Beginning to think it would never happen but whayhaaaaay!! the books are here!
Yup, four boxes of books arrived at the UK distributor yesterday - one of them went straight out to Easons in Ireland - brill - but now they'll at last be available here. Just in time for the publication of a couple of articles ... about which I'm rather excited, but more of that in a week's time or so ....
Normal language service has now been resumed. I wasn't allowed to use slang when I was seven.