I hope this is the appropriate place to post this. I just wanted to put up a message of thanks to you all. I've had a super 2 or so years preparing for and taking part in Countdown. I always wanted to, so it's checked off my list, but I'm ready to move on.
It's been great being a quasi-part of such a brilliant group of people. Some of you I just played online (was spanked by most of you) and that was brilliant. Special thanks to Charlie for making the site, I would obviously not have done as well as I did without it!
I was fortunate to meet some of you in person, either at my finals or at CoC. Whilst you are all wonderfully bonkers, you made me feel very welcome. I hope I see you all again, but after Brexit, where I live may be bombed in to the ground,, so that may not happen! For the all too brief time I was with some of you though, it was super.
A huge thank you also to the Countdown team, you were so very welcoming and made the experience amazing for me. Somehow you made me come across as relatively likeable on TV, so well done!
At the risk of derailing this post, given the audience, let me tell you that I will keep you all in my prayers. If you're of the atheist persuasion, feel free to laugh at me talking to the voices in my head

Many thanks,
Noel