OK, cast me as the 'witch' in the pack, but this is turning into a bit of a joke. Several people have offered help to get messages out or to relieve pressure on Liz but haven't had their offers accepted. I'm really sorry if illness or computer outage has caused yet more problems but I'm the sort of person who needs to know where I stand and I feel I have waited long enough. I'm sorry if this seems unsympathetic but there you go.

I'm out of this. Happy Christmas all.