Campo, old girl,
Nice to see you haven’t gone into total retirement as you have been conspicuous by you absence.
Like you say to Carravagio, (Hi Carra!) Don't worry about poor old JimB, I’ve certainly not given up the ghost and drowned myself in a barrel of cheap Chardonnay wearing nothing but my Juliet Cap. Would that I could be so lucky as to be able to afford a whole barrel of cheap chardonnay in these credit crunch days. And, as for my Juliet Cap, I have un-ravelled it and knitted myself a woolly warmer (that’s WOOLLY warmer) for the hard days ahead.
Incidentally, and quite bizarrely, I too only visit the site very occasionally now, and, for precisely the same reasons. There were a number of references to “the other place” where it was so intense and not light-hearted and fun in any way with all the rules and regulations and people being labelled lazy or stupid for asking questions, etc., I never visited that foreign land but it seems to me the virus from there has spread to here.
However, ever the optimist, I too will continue to keep a watching brief in my occasional visits and, who knows, maybe, just maybe, there will be the occasional string that will enable us to rekindle some of the highly enjoyable banter from earlier days.
Amen
JimB (in semi-retirement)