I should just like to explain that posts to this blog have been fitful, partly due to a lack of time, but partly because access and/or the ability to post have sometimes been difficult.  In China as I explained earlier no Google products were accessible via normal hotel wifi.  More recently in Egypt I could access Blogger but posting anything was impossible.  So along the way there have been various issues.  I should have set up a separate website that would not have been blacklisted or restricted for political/security reasons.


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