sandy i've paid the price of semi retirement it seems content to tend my own uncontroversial articles in the walled garden i'd built i didn't see until too late the shit you and fac have gone through these last few weeks and months and which i've just spent the last couple of evenings wading through with an increasing disheartenment i'm tempted to let vindicate my decision to leave i can't say my input would have made any difference even if i'd chosen to give it but i shouldn't have let my disillusionment with the project blind me to what was happening to those still attempting to make a difference anyway words are the easiest shit i'll ever take and i'm sure you've had more than enough of that you know what an influence you've been without my having to join in with the general eulogising all the best t c