I have decided to return to my original blog name and format.  For a long time I let life become a bit disrupted after what seemed to be a perfect storm of stress; a death well actually two close family deaths, bad neighbours, the loss of a job, personal attacks by a mentally ill family member, then my own serious illness.  This blog was really just part of me trying to keep going when all I really wanted to do was lock myself away and hope the world would just go away and leave me alone.  Slowly I have started to feel more like my old self and now I am starting to resume life in full so I have decided to resurrect The Genteel Arsenal not the original but markII so that is where I now blog.  Blogging is for me part hobby but also part of my professional development and part of my professional portfolio.  If anyone is interested I can now be found here at The Genteel Arsenal.  This blog is now retired.