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Presentation and performance is everything. Hard to do with a spreadsheet; I spent all yesterday filling a big one in the hope that the number in the bottom right would be the number we started with (it wasn't, but that was sort of the point). Get away with your spreadsheets.

My pleasure, Owen. It was great fun. And rather thrilling that you liked it too, hmm?

Well well. Who could have expected that we'd arrive here so soon - only a page and a half remains and it makes no sense to leave half the final exposition until tomorrow so here you are, the end of the road and a dose and a half of goodness. Enjoy it. It's been fun. Soyez soin. A bientôt. https://up...

Yes. Alex's turn. Rather nice here in The Dominican. But not looking forward to the day-long meeting tomorrow in which 6 people try to finish filling in a European Commission funding application for €5m.

Note to self: don't get taxis from the airport in future.

Wow! I can't wait to post tonight's episode (get back!) now we that know so much about 1908!

AHB wrote:Am I allowed to answer?

Yes

DRT wrote:Not even half a mark for my working out?

No

No

Nice try. And effortlessly, charmingly humorous as always. But wrong.

DRT wrote:Yes. I bought the book yesterday.

Then someone's been interfering with your maid.

See Travel. Name the hotel.
(Show your working.)

Any recommendations for good port in Brussels? I'm there from tomorrow and staying in a hotel where Alex's famous forebear used to live.

Nice idea. But is it right?

This is a wild guess... 2 x Lagavulin 16, a Talisker 10 and an Aberlour 12 ?

It's just a guess to get us started.

What a tantalising ending to tonight's episode!! Has anyone guessed the twist yet?

According to the Office for National Statistics in 2014 there were 245142 male deaths of which 3682 were due to prostate cancer; 3682/245142 is almost exactly 1.5%. We already established that the figure quoted was not a percentage of all male deaths, but of males in the UK. What kind of cancer did...

Derek is innumerate.

I have known people who died of prostate cancer, including in my own family. Does that rebalance everything?

The medical profession is sticking up for itself and ganging up against us.

Am I dying or not? The statistical likelihood of that happening appears not to have changed.

Cheers.

Oh go on then. You've been so good until now.

LGTrotter wrote:It's your time we're wasting.

Not at all. I'm watching Jake Chapman speak some of the most intelligent sentences yet heard on BBC TV, while I make a bolognese.

Now do you want to know what happens in the cellar or not?

Oh in that case…

Are you ready? I'm ready.

You were doing so well...