Sunday part 2

[marsden_online]

While making that last post I lost 45 minutes to an hour dealing with M on the phone

- no I think most people who want to make donations and who are giving time understand that there is a risk that everything will be lost if the place gets knocked down or (appear to) solely benefit the owners if it convinces someone to pay the price they're apparently asking

- look if someone was going to spend that much money on the place and keep the building they wouldn't be doing it with a commercial return in mind so there's no point saying over and over that you can't see how the numbers could stack up - because they don't!

- there's little point wasting time and energy (talking with M invariably chews through time and for me emotional energy as well in case you hadn't guessed) in speculating for hours what might happen 10 years down the track or on what the owners' plans (if any) are because we've well established that we simply don't know and even if we thought we did they haven't always been straight with us to this point

- or spending same on planning what we could do if we could somehow raise the money to buy the place (ghod knows it's hard enough to keep him focused on what we can achieve with the very limited resources we already have long enough to get anything actually done)

[pant pant pant] I only had just enough spoons for today as it was.