To: Daniel Maxwell, BBC Newsnight Scotland.

Sir.

My heartfealt apologies and thankyou from the bottom of my heart for your extremely well presented piece.

Your cute little blonde put forth a superb piece. I can only look forward to my grand children finding a lucrative and life-long career in the oil industry.

Furthermore, I am most grateful that you corralled Skrebowski and Mearns onto a minority report slot on another channel at the same time.

Words cannot express my gratitude. My wife admires your bravery and vision.

Is there any possiblity that Professor Odell could be given a weekly slot on Newsnight Scotland?

You see, I wish to sell my house, down size , cash out. I need all the help I can get between now and 2012.

That Sir, is my plan. I would sell this year, but the credit crunch has severely dented the market. However, your piece tonight , plus (I hope) other programmes starring Odell will enable me to offload my house to some poor sucker before it all goes pear-shaped. And leave me with a tidy sum for my dotage.(or my Widows dotage).

I cannot express my delight any more than I have. Please continue the good works - at least until the brief rebound in the housing market in 2011.

That way, I can leave the table with a few chips.

Bravo Sir, Bravo.