I had to think for a while. Or better: feel. Recover from a (mild) shock.
Then I came to the conclusion that it would be mad to let one person not only rain on my parade, but stop me doing something I love.
I talk of writing.
So I'll take a deep plunge and meet (the rest of) my friends again.
Happy to meet you!
(The Pegasus is a photo I took from the window of the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin; the the open-air bath is in Wantlitz, Brandenburg).