Well, they had the Grammy awards again, and Adele was Back with a capital B, and scooping up more awards. And publicly declaring her devotion to Beyoncé, with no prodding whatever from Kanye West.

Adele pretty much did as she said she was going to do: had a baby and took time to be with her young family before returning to the recording studio and adding another album to her resume.

I never see Adele without remembering that she had to have nodes surgically removed from her vocal cords. She was under the supervision of a US doctor, and I wonder if she has modified her singing technique at all under his care. Those benign nodes on the cords have turned up on singers who stretched their vocal resources too far over too long a time. Adele is pretty young, and so was Julie Andrews when singing Eliza in My Fair Lady led to nodes on her vocal cords.

Don't even get me started on the throat surgeon who has been sued by several famous singers for ruining their singing voices.