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::''"Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light"'' -John Milton
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The 'Annotated Angus' is a document record, with commentary, of a presentation given by [https://www.youtube.com/embed/rqSh0VrvesU Angus MacDonald] (hereafter: AMD) to [[Main Page|FITCC]] in late 2021. [[EMD]] hoped to finish it by New Year's Eve 2021 but, due to COVID and a bereavement, didn't.
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AMD introduced himself briefly as having had a "very good career" [''esp. abroad in Hong Kong'' -EMD] but with local roots dating back something like 1000 years(!), and therefore having both the means and the motivation to help Fort William "flourish." Strictly speaking, AMD's family seat is closer to Spean Bridge than Ft Wm, but he was very clear that our town needs to thrive if the area is to "work," for which reason AMD has already opened two businesses in the High Street: a bookshop and a two-screen cinema.
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::''I know of no way to organise a postal-vote primary for less than £500 because that is the minimum spend to gain access to Royal Mail's 'Mailsort Three' (ie third-class mass-mailing) services.'' -EMD
=====Afterword: The North Face of Ben Nevis=====
::''It's long been an adage of mine that the goddamned Nessiemafiosi would steal Ben Nevis for their town if they could (I refuse to dignify a tin-pot conurbation of barely fifty thousand people with the word 'city', btw). Fortunately, the Ben's celebrated North Face is over two kilometres long and won't be going anywhere this side of a thermonuclear explosion.<br />I said earlier that we could and should make more of this excellent asset. An admittedly minor but potentially useful side-effect of popularising [[3P3D|Three Peaks Three Days]] would be to increase demand for accommodation, albeit mainly on bank holiday Saturday nights in the first instance. However, pushing 3P3D would generate interest in the north face across the UK which could only stimulate demand year-round.'' -EMD
===== Appendix: Excerpt from (DRAFT) MINUTE OF FITCC MEETING on TUESDAY 16th NOVEMBER 2021 at 7:00pm via MS-Teams =====
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