After almost 5 years and 2000+ posts I am taking a “sabbatical” until at least next Spring. I have a busy time over the next 6 or 7 months, some travelling but also various projects that seem to always get put on the back burner. My computer will probably sigh with relief and its life expectancy will be extended significantly.
For those of you who send information directly to me, please now direct it to parwich@hotmail.co.uk and keep the posts in. Thanks JaneB
Time for a break
Sunday September 2, 2012 by Jane B


Jane. Very many thanks for all your post work over the last few years. Good luck over your Winter retirement and I look forward to your return in the Spring. I am sure it will be a relief not to have birds flying in to your computer. Yours J.F-S.
Jane, you certainly deserve a break. Don’t fill all that time with new projects – we want you back! Until then we’ll certainly miss all your wonderfully informative and cheerful posts and photos and thank you.We look forward to your return…
Thank you for the enormous amount of time you have given for all of us to enjoy this weblog.
Graham and Amanda.
Jane, thank you for all the posts, informative and entertaining, that you have put in since the start of the blog. I’m not sure who will be able to step forward and fill your shoes as I know it has taken hours and hours each week. We hope the break will refresh you and you will return in the spring with energy and humour . Patti and Brian .
Jane, I am so sorry to hear you are having a break from the blog, you will be greatly missed, You have made a massive contribution and I am sure the blog team will miss your input hugely. Your posts have been informative and extremely useful, a very big thank you from us both. Paul and Caroline
A richly deserved break, Jane! The sustained effort which you have put into maintaining the blog over the years is truly extraordinary – it really is hours and hours of work, week in and week out, for which many thanks.
Jane, thank for all the work you have put into the Blog, including some very thorough research, but most of all thank you for the support you have given me over and over again. I look forward to when you return next year.