Now it has been a while since my last blog and I’m making no excuses. I’ve been ill for some of that time but for most of it I just prioritised other things over it. It looks increasingly like the regular Monday and Thursday blogs may have to be a bit more flexible. That’s to say if I can’t write on a Monday then Tuesday will be almost, if not, as good a day to write. Some days it is tempting not to bother due to a lack of subject matter but to be honest this hasn’t been the

In the last couple of years or so, around this time of year the government has run a stop smoking campaign. They called it Stoptober and the idea was to encourage smokers to give up in October. Nothing wrong with that. You don’t have to wait until January to make changes to your life. New Year’s resolutions are all very well and good but, New Year is three months away, why wait? I haven’t seen any Stoptober publicity yet this year but anticipate it will start soon. To mark th