from some chaps at Edinburgh, who said my application looked very interesting, and would I care to read papers X,Y and Z (written by themselves) and get in touch so that we can take it from there! Apparently, they’ve even done some work on Japanese processing in the past!
This is very exciting, and hopefully promising _{hopefully they didn’t supply the papers as a means of politely indicating that my application was sorely lacking in well-readness!}.
Must go to bed and ruminate!