Without wishing to sound mawkish or overly-sentimental, I do feel this BBS has lost a certain joi-de-vivre that Ian's wit brought to it.

Could perhaps one of his mates, or several of them together, bring together an 'I.J.'s wit' thread by trawling through his old posts? I know some of them will not amount to much in the re-telling, because they were spur of the moment replies and 'you had to be there', but it should be possible to extract something of his great character.

Wouldn't this be a fitting tribute to one of this section's now-departed brightest sparks? I would do it myself but I didn't really know him like some on here.