Roy B, 

I agree,  wise words (as ever) in there.

Just to be clear,  reference to a saga was most definitely not aimed at you,  rather at myself - I seem to regularly start with the intention of being brief but,  for the very reasons you give,  find it growing into another epic or saga.  As you say,  the complexity and also subtleties necessitate it. 

My reason for wishing it might be otherwise is entirely about the time it eats up. Given that,  like Andy,  I'm still working,  albeit now only 4 days per week,  I'm constantly striving to optimise my work/ life balance.  It's why you didn't hear from me for so long because I knew that it inevitably becomes a matter of all or nothing.  This topic was too important for me to make it nothing though,  so it's become all. Once we've 'talked this one out' (which I'm feeling we might be very close to) you may well hear nothing from me again for a good while again, in fact this will need to happen immediately as I'm undergoing my second knee replacement op tomorrow.

Hopefully,  when we eventually get out the other end of this current situation,  we'll get to catch up personally at an IET event

Roy B, 

I agree,  wise words (as ever) in there.

Just to be clear,  reference to a saga was most definitely not aimed at you,  rather at myself - I seem to regularly start with the intention of being brief but,  for the very reasons you give,  find it growing into another epic or saga.  As you say,  the complexity and also subtleties necessitate it. 

My reason for wishing it might be otherwise is entirely about the time it eats up. Given that,  like Andy,  I'm still working,  albeit now only 4 days per week,  I'm constantly striving to optimise my work/ life balance.  It's why you didn't hear from me for so long because I knew that it inevitably becomes a matter of all or nothing.  This topic was too important for me to make it nothing though,  so it's become all. Once we've 'talked this one out' (which I'm feeling we might be very close to) you may well hear nothing from me again for a good while again, in fact this will need to happen immediately as I'm undergoing my second knee replacement op tomorrow.

Hopefully,  when we eventually get out the other end of this current situation,  we'll get to catch up personally at an IET event