Communication has been established today with the settlers in Blissford beyond the Pale, our very own frontier outpost, who were eager to hear news of home. Having assimilated reports of the latest village dramas, they concluded that they were happy to be stationed so far away! These doughty explorers have been busy – FTFV reports that she has achieved her ambition to build the largest outdoor arena in the country, much of the surrounding landscape being covered with enough material to fulfil the wildest dreams of a rubber fetishist. The local natives were at first startled by this latest eccentricity and puzzled by the sight of horses, who more normally travel in straight lines in these parts, describing strange circular movements in this new construction. However the silver tongued fish vet has convinced these backward people that grey rubber is much better than green grass and peace now reigns again.