I don t take it as given at all I made those personal attacks in the context of a single issue which had infact become moot before this block was even extended and my talk page was locked And I ve only made one previous unblock request before this one by email due to that locking and I don t recall that containing any personal attacks With that in mind then in answer to the question I ve had time to reflect on the consequences of what happened nearly 10 days ago now and that s what motivated the request above