Hi Helen,

Oh! Then my kid sister's just emigrated out to roughly your part of Oz! (Abraham Lincoln is dead - but I have heard of this theory about the dead communicating thru the Internet -

Hey, ABE! Very profound - if you weren't missing the point altogether - but then, as you've been dead for quite a while now, I guess it's understandable if you're somewhat out of touch with the zeitgeist (oh, sorry, that's a word in contemporary useage derived from the German word for 'spirit of the times' - which you ain't .. Or is it the thought of trying to people excited in the Arts and theatres, etc getting your goatee?

Progress update anyway: the local BBC radio station finally got back to me. Yippee!