I drop out for less than a day and calm and reason break out! If was paranoid, I might assume cause and effect but I think the real cause lies in the sensible balanced posts from Jim Carroll and Pip Radish. Thank you both.

I'll take up the discussions in separate posts.

In case anyone is curious about my absence, last night I (and several 1000 other people) were wandering the streets of Lewes which looked like this.