Well, now five years have passed, and though our magazine continues to appeal to a niche market, that original band of heroes and heroines — almost every one of them still loyally with us (thank you all) — has been joined by other like-natured minds from around the globe.

Similarly, the number of contributions I receive has been steadily increasing. Time was when I nearly lost heart that I’d get enough submissions to fill the next issue. So much so that, as some of you would have realised by now, I had to resort to inventing improbable pseudonyms for myself.

But all that editorial dejection looks like it has passed for good. Indeed, now I have to keep the queue of contributors waiting far longer than any of us would like.