Right. Someone said to me in an e-mail once "I don't know why you bother trading insults with Steve Shaw ... he's a notorious nutter for picking fights." I don't any more; but how typical that he can't tell a genuine friendship between neighbours, with shared interests in a field in which they have both achieved some success, from a name-drop.

As Dr Leavis used to put it ~ he places himself.

~M~