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My dear father, Mr Keeper, said to me, "Child, in years far into the future, let us say 2018, there will be those who will tell of the wonders of their age. There will be things they will call "Information Technology", which will allow them to learn - almost instantaneously! - of the most momentous events across the world. And yet! It is we, in sleepy Victorian Worcestershire, relying as we do on passing bargees to tell us of this and that, who will be the only ones awake of a morn, to know of doings across "La Chaine Anglaise"!"

More goings on, it seems. No sooner had Mr Patel delivered Sir Jasper's copy of the London Times than Mademoiselle Fifi, who had been engaged to give the Hon. Basil (he who is big and bad) French language lessons, was dismissed, her services no longer required apparently (for the language lessons at least).

In Victorian Worcestershire all has been alarm this morn. Ned reports that Sir Jasper's face has been like thunder as he has stormed around the house, screaming at the servants, "Where's my missing PDF?! Where's my missing PDF?!"

Oh, my cherished samplers, on which I have laboured with so much care and love, replaced by "e-samplers"! I have wept with sorrow. My dear father, Mr Keeper, tended me with his usual solicitude, "There, child, dry your tears. These e-samplers will never replace your own, any more than these new-fangled "Railways" will see the end of our magnificent Canonbie to Tyndrum canal". Our friends at the Methodist chapel this morning saw my distress and were angered by these false rumours. Miss Wemyss, who is not known for displays of emotion, slammed the lid of the harmonium in disgust. And the Reverend Grimm thundered on the theme of his sermon, Galatians 1:8... "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God�s curse!"

So, there are those who know not of me, Alice. There are also those who have known me before. They know that I am the daughter of my devoted parents, Mr & Mrs Keeper, and that I am shy. My dear father, Mr Keeper, keeps a lock on Worcestershire arm of the Canonbie to Tyndrum Canal, a venture which has been long in the construction owing to its tortuous route and the need for planning permission. So I am the shy lock keeper�s daughter. They will also know of my swain, young Ned, who is employed as a stable lad by Sir Jasper. Sir Jasper has a spoilt son, the Hon. Basil, who is big and bad and casts lascivious eyes in my direction. My time in the lock keeper�s cottage is filled with contentment, as I work on my embroidery. It was one of my embroidered samplers that was the cause of some confusion just after you last saw me. For it said, in delightful coloured threads, �Lord, Keep Me Chaste�. Unfortunately, young Ned cannot read or write and, upon enquiring as to the meaning of my sampler, he thought that I was willing to be chased. Which he did. Into Sir Jasper�s hayloft. Shortly after this affair I embarked on a holiday at the home of my stern Auntie Maud. It was while returning from this holiday along the canal towpath that I chanced upon a newborn baby, wrapped in swaddling clothes. And so I brought him back to our cottage. When my dear father, Mr Keeper, first spied the child, he raised a hand to his brow and cried, �By �eck!� So that is what we have decided to call him. Eck. No doubt those of you who have not followed our tales in the past will soon be introduced to our other neighbours � Miss Wemyss, the Reverend and Mrs Grimm, and the man who keeps the village shop, Mr Patel (something of a novelty for Victorian Worcestershire).

Hello R, Yes, I went straight and had a look at their website too. On their home page the graphics flash by so quickly you need to be a speed reader. Didn't we have a speed reader amongst our number at one time? But, like you, I feel pretty confident with their track record. Angel, Angel, he da Man, If Angel can't, then No-one can. Regards, y PS Alice is working on an explanation for her long absence. It involves Ned, Sir Jasper's hayloft and "a holiday at my auntie's".

Hello R Yes, it is so quiet (and possibly will be for a number of weeks) that I've even thought of resurrecting the fragrant Alice. She of the embroidered samplers. And her sainted parents, Mr and Mrs Keeper. And the whole cast of characters... Sir Jasper, Ned, Miss Wemyss, the Reverend Grimm, et all. But since Mr Shylock has disappeared, and Mr Canonbie's plans for a canal capable of accommodating huge cruise ships full of tourists have been thwarted by the dastardly NP Board giving permission for a mine (FFS!!), I guess there will be no future need for Mr and Mrs Keeper, let alone their shy daughter. Regards, y

Thanks for that link, Baz. While it's nice to get coverage where it's to be hoped some people might see it when they unwrap their Mars bars in crunchy batter, it's probably more helpful to have it in a "serious" paper.

I hear Oor Nicola's back off to Holyrood in a bit of a huff. Seems her tourist charabanc couldn't make it through the sprinkling of snow.

Hi Blakeney, yes, to think that these were once selling at the equivalent of over �6. I have a tranche from those days. Fortunately, a small one, and I've been able to do as you say, average down very significantly. I think 40p minimum in the short term is needed to repay faith. After all, many of us bought into a Rights Issue at 60p, which itself seemed ridiculous at the time. Best of luck to us all.

Oh, I've become a real cynic after many years of AIM. If and when we do get news of full funding, I fully expect the SP to plunge through the floor !!

Thanks, TLC. These yellow snow drifts would be the ones left behind by the huskies pulling the Board members along in their bobble hats?

I've read the letter that glen kindly drew our attention to. A bit amusing (?) that he concedes that it's outside the time permitted to lodge an objection, and then goes on to do just that anyway. If the Board goes along with his demand that no further mining should take place "unless and until the restoration of the first tailings stack can be shown to have been successful", this would surely leave us - yet again! - in limbo, and no nearer convincing any funders to back the project.

There's got to be something wrong here, surely? I participated in the recent Rights Issue, and now I discover that the current market price is ABOVE what I paid in the RI !!!!

I assume, glen, that you meant "navvies", as thousands of them labour to complete the means for canonbie to arrive in the nick of time with Nicola, Queen of Scots.

Eck! I am opening a book, with fairly short odds on there being a military coup in Crianlarich towards the end of next week.

"I would think we are very close to being informed of the planning date" 25 hours and 3 minutes, TLC. Not VERY close, LOL !!

Thanks,TLC, that makes sense in view of the 9 January date. It did seem a bit odd that an 'Expiry date' for the actual application could have been triggered without anyone trying to prevent this.

I notice on the Park's Planning page that the 'Important Dates' attached to our application include 'Expiry Date Friday 9 February 2018'. Which was the day before yesterday. Does this mean what it appears to? That we are back to square one?

Who makes up these figures overnight, hick?? As mad as a solitary sale of under �100 seems to bang the sp down by a big percentage. Clowns!