M'lud, thanks for comments. I put myself down to save others the effort.....!!!
I seem to be able to waffle on about most things, as to whether they are interesting or not I leave to my betters to judge. The crux of the piece was to try and encourage others to dip a toe into writing pieces, hopefully that will appear on FM.
I know there are many who post hundreds, nay thousands of words on the Forums, but don't appear to want to go over to the dark side and offer up an article. To those I say, come on in, it's not too bad over here, although once you have had a piece posted, you can never go back........!!