Why Don't I See My Comment?

We love your comments. Sometimes, inexplicably, comments vanish - I know we lost one the other day from Jennifer H - and I don't have an email address to ask people to make their comment again. Often people include a link. Not everyone who posts a comment with a link is genuine, so to protect blog readers we check out links if we have the time - sometimes it is frustrating because we can't simply cut and paste the link to check if it is bonafide, we have to transcribe it and re-input it and it just takes one small mistake to miss it by a mile. So, your comment will always get posted quickly if it doesn't contain any links.