Don't worry no one is obligied to do anything, it's not like anyone is getting paid to do anything! You must live in a really remote area if it takes three weeks to get your post mail order.
I am spoilt as I can buy just about any electronic dohickey imaginable, I want from a shop called CPC in Preston. Coincidentally I have managed to meet up with Paul Michell of Michell computing as it turns out he lives up the road from me. Paul is lucky enough to get paid to use Lazarus, he has done some awesome things with his Global Information Managment system program. He has got a 12 GB laptop running Kubuntu containing 4 virtual boxed emulated machines, on one of which he was running Lazarus under emulated windows XP. It really showed off the power of Lazarus and free pascal. I am hoping he is going to help me, to create a cross compiler for the Raspberry pi from linux. In the meantime I am going to work on my lazarus / raspi website, I nearlly have enough useful information inside it to publish it.
I also been a bit distracted as I found the source code for the Colossal cave adventure on the web. I have been trying to get the C version to compile on the raspi, but so far it is refusing to do so.
