@zevans23 Punxatawny Phil is Michael Fish in a furry suit?

@zevans23 what pillars will fall next? Arabs buying sand from Jewson? Belgium and Wales are the same size? The Eiger has no North face?

@zevans23 I once walked along one bit of the FB railway in the dark. Scary. Now, though, all my memories are as dust with the painting done

@garethesque always going to be brave step. Anyway will keep you in mind re freelance stuff! Things come up sometimes where I could use help

@garethesque can’t help yet but there could be things next year – have you still got the bookshop plan, by the way?

@vigornian I came to bury your scissors, not to peruse them

@zevans23 when I lived in Edinburgh a friend and I coined the term ‘pontosisyphean’. Robbed, robbed.

Here’s a headline I thought I’d never see: Forth Bridge painting completed (bbc.in/s7CjuI). Is this the End of Days?

@KithandKinUK indeed! It’s a good few years since I last was in the position of getting such letters; there’s always someone with a surprise

@KithandKinUK see DYA p12! But the reader goes on to speculate about a lost group of survivors in the UK. Maybe there’s a novel in this!