It is increasingly clear that people are starting to find their way to this site – so I can’t really put off confirming a launch date for any longer! We have already had visitors from a fairly broad expanse of the UK and even some international visitors from Ireland, the Netherlands and the United States.

So, I am pleased to announce that the official launch date for this site will be two weeks from tomorrow – Wednesday 21 March 2012.

In the meantime work continues frantically in the background. I am finally learning my way around – what seems to me – David’s arcane filing system and slowly I am knocking it (or him, he’s not quite sure which) into some sort of shape. We now have something of the order of 400 or so stories of Charlie’s to publish – and there could be many more! My original plan was to push out one a week, but with that much material I think that we will be able to do much better than that – I am currently aiming for 2 a week.

So, I crave your patience for a little while longer. I’m very pleased that so many of you are keen to get started on the incredible journey that we are about to embark on together. I trust that you find the wait to have been worth your while. In the meantime I can’t make any guarantees for what you will be able to see on the site prior to launch date – but I will endeavour to leave enough for everyone to look at to whet your appetites.

Also, if anyone wants to make contact then we’d love to hear from you – just enter a reply to this post. Whilst it is great to see that so many people are visiting the site you are, for the most part, anonymous to us at this stage. I’m sure that, as we come to know our audience better, we can adapt what we are planning, to improve the site and your experiences of it.