Greetings, once again, from Alberta in Western Canada. I note that 2023 is the year of the Rabbit in Chinese culture, which takes my mind back to when this was also the case in 1999 and we were all facing Y2K. The world was said to be in dire straits with global computer systems threatened by the arrival of the new millennium. Predictions suggested that everything was going to grind to a halt but, thankfully, such fears were unfounded. Now, here we are, almost a quarter of a century later, and our lives certainly aren’t any less complicated but overall, it’s been quite a ride!
In November, in celebration of a milestone birthday, my wife Linda and I travelled to New Zealand for a month’s
