What with bouts of flu, Christmas and New Year and assorted catching up on outstanding annual holiday quotas, some sections of this website haven't moved on much in the past six weeks, but there have been lots of updates and new articles and features added in our TIME OUT section.

Meanwhile, we're just about to carry out a complete overhaul and revamp of the sports pages and there will be new competitions on line very soon now, as soon as we've done a bit of tinkering with the clever-clogs stuff that we use to keep this site running.

Apologies for any and all delays of late, but there are only a very few of us to write and create this site and there are only so many hours in a day ...