I must say that all three of us are grateful to have such kind and generous comments from everybody - and it is doubly pleasing to us to read the note left by "Wildside" where we have, perhaps been especially helpful to him, in taking his mind off other things after his unfortunate recent experiences.
When we started writing about this saga, we never expected there to be a lot of interest in it, and we have been quite overwhelmed with the response that it has attracted. "Number Crunchers" may have noticed that the number of "hits" on the site has now exceeded the 100,000 mark which really astonishes us. Thank you, everybody, for your interest.
Tony