Thank you for that Dick but I have to say that the small, but welcome, remuneration that I receive is not the driving force (I did a smilar column for the "Sunday Sun" in the North East in the seventies for six years for which all I received was expenses for envelopes and stamps!)although it does discipline you to meet deadlines.
"Professional is as professional does" is more the motto and here I relate to "Tatters" the on line magazine with which I am associated where I stated in the other thread that the contributors do take an immense pride in their, unpaid, work to the extent that they would not wish their names to be connected with anything sloppy, immature or incorrect. This is continually mentioned by our quite sizeable readership.
To illustrate this, from a totally unprofessional instance, on Sunday I sent out the September edition and (probably due to the Forest v Derby result of the previous day as some have suggested) forgot to attach it to one of the lists of readers. When I checked my e-mails last night I found 50% of that list had contacted me asking where was their September edition!
If I could get the majority of those people who contacted me under one roof we could have a pretty good festival.