Sorry to just be getting back to you now, Poppy. Saturday night, you know: Dora's little beer garden is only just quieting down for the evening.

The north would certainly be less inhabited, it's true. I wonder if we could set them up on the eastern coastline, along the North Sea; it's possible that with a little work on Aleks's part, we could pass them through to Norway or the Netherlands when the wards drop at the solstice. Not in December, obviously, but next summer, perhaps.

You don't suppose we'd be able to transport them all the way to Stromness, do you? It'd certainly be out of the way.