Just in case anyone failed to recognise the rather oblique invitation
(reproduced below for those of you who deleted it as junk, or whose
mailers rejected it as spam), Isobel and I are having an open house
in Bath over the Millennium, and that mail was your six month notice.

The open house runs from 28th December to 4th January, and you're
welcome to come for as much or as little as you want (it being an open
house). Also, due to a general lack of omniscience on my part, the
above distribution list is probably not complete - if you think I've
accidentally omitted anyone, please forward this mail (and let me know
so I can try and keep track of who is interested).

Accommodation is no problem; Isobel lives and works on the campus of
the University of Bath so we can rent student houses for the days
required. Beds will even be available for those who want them (albeit
of the student accommodation variety - relive your youth!)

The university campus is green, pleasant and fairly free of student
life at that time of year, and is situated on the edge of the
city. Bath itself is a beautiful city with a distinguished history and
has a lot to offer, including a theatre, three cinemas and plenty of
pubs and other eating and drinking establishments. Other sites of
attraction in the area (Marlborough, Avebury, Stonehenge, etc) are a
short drive away.

Anyway, if this dry run goes well enough, we can always try and do it
again on the real turn of the Millennium...
-- 
Nick Gibbins                                         nmg97r@ecs.soton.ac.uk
    "[He was] a genial and pleasant gentleman, whom to meet anywhere in
  your travels was to know, to know was to drink with, and to drink with
was, unfortunately, to pay for." - Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd