Oops!
Thanks very much for the kind comments, but reaping this wasn't my intention at all. I just had a sort of wave of happiness - a kind of flash of sunshine on a rather gloomy day; I pretty much always tune in to LuLa during the second part of breakfast when I enjoy my second mug of milkless, sugarless tea. Some days I end up giving myself high blood pressure (I think - but don't really know if I can do that with all these pìlls I have to pop), but usually it sets me up for the rest of the day. It's nice to know that the world doesn't consist solely of the folks coming at me from the news programmes - though I do try to control input from those channels too. I've currently lost Sky News for some unknown reason, but I have not been watching since I discoverd that Eammon Holmes, the Irish anchor, has left. He was the only guy I could watch and believe had some balls. He has character and style.
So yeah, many people here do bring me cheer; some I have known a long, long time and others are relatively new positive influences. With others I just can't help disagreeing, but that's probaby as much my own failure as theirs.
Thanks to Michael for building this thing, and to Kevin and Chris for keeping it alive. Great place to travel! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Rob