At various and random intervals (usually when my muse has departed for parts unknown) I ask others to write a post or two in my stead. Occasionally they agree. So, my thanks go out to my guest authors for the time and effort they put into their posts and for filling in for me when I’ve temporarily run out of things to say.

Unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a blog (apologies to Edward Gibbon)