It’s curious that this change should be happening now, just when Mrs Lifeboat and I have access to the net for a couple of weeks and are in touch with the change. I’ll take that a positive, an omen for the future.
I don’t pretend to know or understand what happened. However, it’s shame to see one time mates throwing rocks at each other. These are people we would have been happy to share a drink with only last week. I prefer to think that chaos, confusion and honest mistake are probably behind it all, like most of human affairs that go wrong. We can’t keep chucking people out or watching them leave. Soon there won’t be enough of us left to load a camel, let alone fill a gold caravan.