It’s great to host your newsletter and it’s a special treat to hear your comments. Thanks for the tip about Monckton, we’ve deleted that item.

Ah yes, the polar bear. I was desperate. I like to put a picture with each post because they are more interesting like that. It was after one o’clock in the morning. You had given me no help whatsoever. I reached out blindly and felt … a polar bear! I ran with it, found a picture, cropped it, wrote the code to insert it and it was done and it was good and I went to bed and to hell with it!

Then I apologised and changed it. The heading dog is a worthy and far more appropriate replacement, and this townie might forever recognise a heading dog over a huntaway. (I might tell the story one day.)

Hope we see you here more often now.

Cheers,
Richard.