My last mailing was on March 30^th 2010.

It was not really intended as a blog, but rather part of a series of, for want of a better term, essays.  I simply used the blog platform for convenience.  I wasn’t interested in getting replies or comments or entering into correspondence.  As far as I was concerned, I was simply speaking, if you like, ex-cathedra.

At the time of ceasing, I felt that I had said all that need saying, though not all that could be said.  Several times over the intervening years I have been tempted to revive the postings—something that up to now I have resisted.

It is now the end of September 2016, and I have finally decided to surrender to the temptation and restore the mailings, at least for the time being.  They are aimed at a very small number of people, who know who they are, but anyone else who might happen to come across them is welcome to read them.  Beyond this particular mailing, they are not otherwise being advertised.

The name of the new ‘blog’ is New Lamps for Old.

The address for it is:

The mailings will probably be more sporadic that previously, and will cover a wider range of topics.