Thanks for all the good wishes. It is something I should have probably done some time ago but that was before the company pension got well and truly screwed.
Besides which 1. I feel less and less appreciated where I am, 2. the company is now far removed from the one that Bill Souter and Jim Jaffrey set up in 1951 and 3. my new employer has been asking to join his company for some considerable time. At my age, I am vain enough to take that as a compliment.
Thanks again