Not replying to emails is discourteous but I have to confess that I do it all the time! I simply receive far too many enquiries not only at my home email address but also at the office. I signed up for FaceBook and now have 147 friends with 113 wanting to become my friend and that generates even more contact and requests for information. I cannot access social networking sites such as FaceBook from the office which means I cannot use lunch breaks to answer posts and queries there and that means there is even less time to respond. Even this web site with its ‘contact’ page creates email. So what is to be done? Not a lot I think as the cat is now not only out of the bag but is half way to Loch Lomond!

The purpose of this blog is therefore to let everyone know that I know the problem and am sorry for not replying to 100s of emails that are still sitting unread in my Inbox (see image for proof that I am not kidding!)

So please remember that although I might have received your email it might have got lost amongst the large number that arrive everyday. Oh, and calling often does not work either because I am trying to read an answer my emails…