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Lletter from the land owner re use of field arrived this morning. Will email scanned gif for discussion at meeting next wednesday, should be a good one.

Another cheque in the post this morning (plus my spanking new Stayfocused mask!) so that's 11 in the hand, one in the post.

I've directly emailed all of those who I have received money from, so if you think you've paid but haven't had an email receipt yet check with me it's not lost.

Land owner just called to confirm draft letter is in the post today.

Another cheque is promised in the post so that now makes the full 12 we needed to cover field, FAS and insurance.

One more cheque just arrived this am. So that's 10 in my hand, one outstanding.

Going to the bank today to cash the 8 cheques (and 1 Paypal) that I have received over Christmas.

2 cheques still outstanding in the post, waiting to see if they arrive this am before going to the bank.

Will contact land owner again re draft letter. He wasn't sure whether I would get it before now anyway. I think we should meet up and you all see it before I send off the cheque with our signed copy.

Waiting to hear back from FAS re insurance cover schedule and where to send the money.

At the moment as it is mainly waiting to hear from other people out of my control. Plus, this all kicked off just before or during the Christmas holiday. Still, everyone is back at work now!

Next week J28 M1 sounds fair.

Yes, still waiting to see copy of insurance schedule as to what it does and doesn't cover.

If Doc's scope fell on you you would certainly know about it!!!!!

2 more arrived today, so that's 9, plus confirmed 2 more in the post.

1 more covers field, FAS and insurance.

Group (<21 people) membership of FAS plus insurance cover is between £42 and 54 (depending on if we get in for a discount quick enough). Basically £5'ish each or another 2 people.

Awaiting copy of schedule to confirm;

...If your scope falls on someone you are covered.

...If someone knocks your scope over you are covered.

All sent.

I'm sending an email 'receipt' to those who I have had a cheque off or PayPal this afternoon, I'm sure everything else is just in the Christmas post splurge at the sorting office and will arrive soonest.

As stuff does arrive I'll keep the email receipts going.

Ok, make that now 7.

As the famous philosopher J Bon Jovi said, "We're half way there", 5 cheques so far.

I've called the land owner and asked him to start things moving on the paperwork, should get something next week.

First cheque just arrived by hand this morning.

Doc has posted some sat pics of the field.

You can see the hard standing and the gate off the lane that we are talking about.

Whether it's 'dark' enough is, as we said in the meeting, open to interpretation but the concensus seems to be for £25 it has other pro's which make it worth a years trial.

I'll hang onto the cheques until I get 10, then cash them to pay the field. Do you want another meeting before money actually changes hands to see the excahnge of letters wording for yourselves?

Any other cheques I will do similar until the next meeting when you can decide whether to hold the money in a fund, use it to book halls, divy it up so we all pay less for the field, whatever, it's up to you.

I'll look at some sort of credit card sized laminated 'membership' card for those that have paid.

If nothing else, it's your receipt for your money.

Excellent, I'm following up the FAS angle. Membership for a group of about 20 would be £28.50, they do offer a third party liability insurance, I'm waiting to hear what the schedule of cover is and whether this comes with the £28.50 or whether it is extra.