Quick PS: today's Mail-on-Sunday (27 Oct 13) has a piece on the Cilla Black LL RE-WRITE by PETER HITCHENS. I was quite excited when he phoned me mid-week since he promised to 'mend' the omissons is the prev. Sunday's article by Chris Hastings. Also, I had followed closely the fraternal 'altercations' 'twixt PETER (born-again CHRISTIAN) and CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, devout ATHEIST. Christopher's slow, brave, BIG-C death attracted much media coverage. My long immersion in Quantum Mechanics leaves my own location on the Peter-Christopher 'line' something of a 'tolerant superposition' uneasy with Dawkins's stridency, and attracted by Polkinghorne (ordained anglican student of Dirac!). More anon.
I have noticed a GLITCH in Peter's column and I hope Doug Chadwick is not UPSET. In an email to Peter I quoted from Doug's Mudcat's posting, saying I approved, and it seemed to represent the majority of feedback I was seeing, viz that the change from 'gerra belt' to 'get told off' was rather ridiculous. Peter, in haste I presume, has included some of Doug's posting as though he was quoting ME. Doug: send me yr email address to skb@bootle.biz; I'll email you the relevant texts & seek yr reaction.