Nice idea Dovster. Hope others join your pledge.

Some of the madness I have experienced in the past few days is without precedent on FT.

A VERY black week for FT - IMHO. No one has to agree, it is just my personal opinion. And I am not going into further details unless folks want to take it to email.

I have received over three HUNDRED FT related emails in the past week and that is also unprecedented in my 4½ years year. There certainly are problems in Paradise, and a TB by-election sadly will do nothing to address them in my view.

I do not need to be embroiled in this right now, and will give myself a 5-7 day time out, starting immediately from this Forum, and quite possibly all Forums, when I get a couple of immediate things out of the way.

A lot of once prolific folks post little or nothing on FT these days, and I am starting to see why.