Older, but no wiser

Several times in the last couple of weeks I've wondered whether to delete this entire blog. Sometimes it seems no more than a mass of pretentious twaddle.

But I wont deny there are one or two pieces in which I've surprised myself by the pleasure I've found in writing them, so I've decided to leave it in place for the time being - if only to serve as an indicator of how far I've got to go.