To all and sundry who may read this, let me pass on a message of thanks from Gaelyne, Rod's widow. In her own words:
…please let the forum folk know I appreciated reading their comments? And I agree - he was a grumpy old bugger, opinionated, and yet very helpful. I'll miss him forever.
and that's that. For those of you who have subscribed to Rod's service and not yet acted you will not have much time beyond early February to find alternative arrangements before the servers supporting Rod's code are shut down on March 10 2019.