Blasting through to up to date

I've woken early on this Saturday, after an early night last night, determined to catch this blog up to date even though this covers a huge amount of stuff. I'll just sweep past things, zoom through, and hopefully it won't be too long but even if it is at least I'll be up to date. The very size of the task of catching up was what was preventing me from starting; not a very sensible thing to do