Karen Smith, who had her spinal procedure cancelled for this coming Thursday, told BBC Radio 4 she was "devastated" when she heard it had been put off.
Although if I write a memoir I'll have to do something about it - which is one reason why I've been put off doing it.
I have only just caught up with it because, I confess, I had been put off by gushing comparisons to James Joyce – mutinously thinking there was no room for imitators.
And I think, to be honest, I had been put off it for the simple reason that I was afraid - afraid it might work.
But it lost £95m and break-even has been put off to 2005 when its long-delayed new medium car is due to be launched.
"Now that the plebiscite idea has been put off, it does allow more pressure on the government," he said.
It was scheduled for completion this year, but that has been put off until 2014.
But that, too, has been put off.
Prison construction has been put off in Virginia.
Chinese ire over a related question has been put off.
