Crabbeman those guys are wankers, no two ways about it. Luckily, this is no reflection on you, who are indeed a fine upstanding young man, but if you could pass on to the wankers that I think they are wankers, I'd be most grateful. They were lucky Genghis had the balls to accept their money, do the decent thing and play the game, cos if I'd been there they'd have had a wasted journey and I'd have made a right knob out of myself. Grrr.

Is everyone okay for those dates or does anyone have any serious problems with them? I'll have to warn you, if it's a majority then we may have to go with it anyway, so see what you can do about work/other commitments first. To all intents and purposes, those are solid dates, confirmed and written in quick-drying cement...