If only … This is the bane of life. If only we had been prepared … If only we could be bothered … If only we cared … enough … If only we had been organised … What if, somewhere, someone was? How would you know? At the start of the summer of 2000, Danny Wetherby set out to find … something. What she achieved, she was not attempting; what she found, she was not seeking; for what found her, she was not prepared. All in all, by Autumn, her world was full of chaos. But then … it often is, for a mathematician. With a cast of ABC people (that’s Argumentative, Bloodyminded and Cantankerous) … plus betting, bureaucrats, chaos, computers, fireworks, geeks, maths, motorbikes, music, politicians, trains, walnuts, the Internet, the Taj Mahal and a four-poster bed. And the Grapevine. But not necessarily in that order. What goes on in your town?