I'm unashamedly using the blog to say thank you to Mr Annwyl, Roy and the man in the red 4 x 4 for digging, having a rope handy and towing us out of a hole.

BBC: It's lift-off - at a price of ?52m

He was a short and solid old man in a black peasant's smock and gray iron-stiff trousers and he wore rope-soled shoes.

NPR: Robert Jordan, Hemingway's Bipartisan Hero