Battening down the hatches

These are days of serious austerity but - as friend and foe will readily testify - my door has always been open for original ideas and schemes of true imagination. It was through my door that the inspiration came for many of my pioneering plans. Some may say that I pioneered too much too soon, or merely left the door wide open for less sensible notions to enter. So I have decided to adopt a more cautious approach in future in the interests of saving time. Eunice agrees. She says 'by all means try, but be prepared to go in the long way round'.