foreword

The next four posts were written over the Easter weekend.
They are intended to be read as a sequence
and so I have turned the comments off
for the individual posts.

I hope that you don't mind...
I know that part of the fun of reading blogs
is the opportunity to respond immediately
but in this case it takes four posts
to tell the story.

There will be a postscript on Friday if you wish to comment or you can email me if you can't wait that long.