'Talk Ivy' is here, in this form, at least for the time being, for anyone who values words over images.  Nothing wrong with the latter - invaluable in the right context - but this site is back to airing and sharing: opinions, ideas, dissent, whatever you like.

As Keynes said, we're all dead in the end.  But while there's life there's hope.  Thanks, Robbie.

About face - shamefully.  There are some nice shots on there that would not have disgraced 'The Syllabus' (which I did enjoy, but possibly - no, certainly - the more arcane aspects of it - Steve McQueen and Sinatra I can live without).

The Roll Call.  I had a quick squint.  Always a sucker for that old-time Gant advertising.  Reminds me of the original JS website.

The fine 'gentlemen' on DW are not best pleased with me.  All our discussions are 'old hat'.  Maybe, maybe not.  We'll see how it pans out, who comes back, what they have to say, want to discuss - while I change my user name to 'Psychotic Episode'.

Tread carefully over there, old bongo player.  Good old Shooman dropped in the other evening to do what he does best, i.e. confirm all our worst suspicions about those Down Under.  Sox porn my Aunt Fanny.

To anyone interested: there is work to be done: we acknowledge that.  But we are back to - on the whole - 'talking Ivy'.  The forum will almost certainly never have the potency of its early, Terry Lean days, but I would like to think the younger Paul Simons shopper might fancy dropping by from time to time.  At sixty two, I think a gentler, non-confrontational approach is best, don't you?

An email notification made me aware that the forum is back. I'm happy because I really appreciated the contributions and the tone of voice. What I do not understand is that the forum software has not been updated to a reasonably contemporary version for so many years. As someone who has run a forum myself, I know that this is not rocket science. But I don't want to complain and I hope that the runaway users will come back.

Welcome, Skipper!