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�It's the end... but the moment has been prepared for* Are you sitting down? If not, you may wish to, as elementary way at least by our last issue, and we will DOCTOR WHO ('Logopolls') the following Important information may require a little announce more details next Issue. recovery time... So much for the rational reasons. There is a deeper If you haven't yet looked at the opposite page, From early next year, se will cease to exist as a printed incentive to this move. Despite the team effort behind you need to stop and read lt before going any journal. This means that issue 94 of se, due out in these pages, and the mailing thereof, putting out se l January-February, will be the final issue. [This does relies very much on my personal commitment. It is a further with this column. All done? Well, with major tie on my personal life. I have spent (quite that shock absorbed, let's get on. There's still NOT affect Southern Circular Research or our regular happily) almost five months this issue and two more left to go, and a new www.cropclrcleconnector.com/sc/sc.html monthly meetings, which will continue as normal.] out of every year for most of horizon opening up after that, so brave your the last decade editing and This has not been an e(!sy hearts and soothe your worries. producing it! Until recently Editor: ANDY THOMAS decision! However, there is There's a lot to get through In this very late this has been possible to a time and a place for every­ issue, with so much unfinished business from the keep up, but very much at 13 Downsview Cottages thing, and now is the time to the expense of my own pro­ summer needing to be put down for the record. close the book on se - but Cooksbridge,Lewes jects. The increasing late­ Please forgive some of the very small print we've not crop circles, nor on our Please read the following announcement ness of each issue is a pointer had to use to squeeze lt all in. East Sussex reporting and commentary from your editor ANDY THOMAS. to the sheer practical difficul­ Unfortunately, some of the subjects that need services. In its place, a new Stand by for a shock. .. BN84TA ties of maintaining such a tackling have a rather gloomy bent to them, but web site, with a new name, tight schedule amongst work, England Tel: 01273 474711 will be set up in an attempt the truth must out and some developments can­ the school run and other day­ to widen our reach - and restore some time and sanity not go uncommented on. We can't pretend that to-day commitments. Moreover, many of you will be to my life! All the most important aspects of se will be crop circle research Is always a bed of roses and aware of my books, crop circle-based and, more re­ see-mail (editorial & mailing): transferred to the new web site, where what we do best sometimes a few thorns need to be picked out. cently, non-circle-based. Writing is'a vocation to which can flourish in a new environment, one which will enable Despite the very beautiful designs we've received I am very much dedicated and, time-wise, it has become [email protected] us to have a greater influence on events as they happen, increasingly difficult to juggle se with my impulse to this season, there's been a turbulent atmosphere albeit in a different way to what has gone before. at the Front and the traditional autumn retreat to explore other inspirations, some of which people have SC: Edited and produced by ANDY THOMAS on behalf We know that many of you will be sad and disappointed been given hints of at my Glastonbury Symposium the trenches from all sides gives us a chance to at this news. We fully understand and share this of Southern Circular Research (SCR). The seR presentations. absorb what's happened with perspective. sadness, and appreciate that those who don't have team: Dl Brown, Martin Noakes, Jason Porthouse se has always had a sense of mission for me. I never The gloomier aspects in no way, of course, over­ access to the Internet may feel let down. For those Barry Reynolds & Kaye Thomas. Articles, letters and saw it as a frivolous hobby, but as a valuable and balance the very wonderful and exhilarating gifts dispossessed, we can do nothing but express our re­ contributions to the editor's address please. necessary outlet for opinions and information which the formations and the resulting inspiration, grets. We'll speak more about the new web site next The opinions expressed In this publication are those of were�'t getting enough airing in the face of burgeoning issue, and make some suggestions which may help friendships and inslghts have given us, and we the Individual contributors and not se as a whole' scept1c propaganda. It has served this purpose very those without access. will be celebrating this next Issue when we report unless otherwise stated. well. But this sense of mission is now calling me to So what are the reasons for this decision? It had long on the important summer crop circle gatherings. se Copyright (C) 2000: permission must be sought for other areas of life I feel I have something to contribute been planned, quietly, that se 100 would be our last. Another piece of positive news is that se and The any reproduction of material. Copyright for individual to, and I need the time back to enable me to move Due in January 2002, that would have been the perfect articles and Illustrations lies with the original authors, confidently forward with these ideas, through my writing Cereologist have decided to end the ongoing feud numerological time to stop - 100 issues and exactly 10 artists and photographers. and presentations. Over the years my schedule slotted which has dogged the odd column In both over years since the very first. However, circumstances and around se comfortably for the most part, but, slowly, the last few years. A constructive conversation a feeling of destiny have conspired to bring the final the tail has begun to wag the dog, the pressure of between Cereo/ogist editor John Sayer and my­ i�su� forward � year, to end on our ninth anniversary, production dates dictating my life plans. Though going self at the CCCS Andover conference this year s1x 1ssues earlier than intended. Nine years isn't bad CONTRIBUTE TO THE FINAL ISSUE! bimonthly helped for a while, I now have to wrestle back going for something that began as a humble newsletter has resulted In us deciding to put aside our It Is you, thereaders, who have helped make se what control of my own destiny to enable me to take on some for a few Sussex circle enthusiasts and ended as a differences. As proof, we offer the photo of the it Is. Your loyal support - and we have some readers new arenas, whilst retaining my duties to the crop circle globally-read cult fanzine. two of us below! As John himself puts it: "A who have taken the whole nine-year trip with us! - world �n my own terms. Retirem�nt, incidentally, is not has been much appreciated. Your many letters of picture's worth a thousand words: we've buried There are two essential reasons for se's demise - or an opt1on... hence the new web s1te. se foes should in encouragement and kind comments over the decade the �atchet, forgiven and forgotten, put the past transformation to a new medium - one rational, one no way relax. have been a treasure to us which we will never forget. personal. There's been a growing feeling amongst the behmd us and are looking forward to working Giving editorship of se to someone else was never really Our very last Issue of se (NOT the next one), due out team for a while that se, in its current format has together from here on in." We extend this truce In February, will be a special one which we want you a serious consideration. With no obvious successor in achieved everything it can achieve - and it has achleved to our new web site and welcome the chance to to be able to share In. If you have any comments you place, whatever makeshift arrangements might follow much! The hard truth is that an increasing number of wish to make about se, crop circles and crop circle would create a completely different publication. se Is let bygones be bygones. There, a happy ending! people are turning to the Internet to get their informa­ research In general and where you see it all going, we probably the best it's ever been in terms of presentation ANDYTHOMAS tion these days. It's the ideal format for a phenomenon would very much like to Include them in the magazine. and content. Better to go out on a high than a slow slide which shapes and shifts every other day each summer. It may be your final chance to have the last word! into an uncertain future. Please send any contributions - typed or ASCII text If When monthly, we could just about keep up with what We'll say more in the course of the next two issues. We possible - to the editorial address or the se e-mail was going on, but now it's frustrating to be sifting hope you appreciate our reasoning for this big decision address, both listed above.

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