(Stevie) Thank you for waiting till midnight GMT.

I've started the New Year with bungling and ranting. TYpical.

(pen) Keep it up. Eliminate the crap. BTW You've made a TYpo. :-)

Bungling and rating? Could be ... *wink*

[pen] Burgling and panting?

Anonymous defamation is simply pathetic. Even if it were justified criticism, which it isn't, posting it anonymously is the behaviour of a half-baked, duplicitous, weak-minded troll.

(Phil) He's probably getting at me, for reasons best known to himself, and has hijacked a limerick to do so. Not good. Probably thinks this site cliquey but too dim to realise that firstly, it isn't, and secondly, if he thinks it is then all he needs do to join the clique is simply not be an arsehole. The wit, widsom and wordplay of all is welcomed, as has been proved dozens of times with newcomers.

Jeez it's tedious doing HTML.in here on an iPhone. *tap tap tappity tap*

The capital "P" is no disguise - we know you're in there. Hurry up - I'm dying.

[Rosie] I laughed out loud. But now I've got to grips with the titchy keyboard on this eyephone, I'm back to my normal self.

So... Thursday, eh? And what has the week delivered for you lot? For me: I've finally finished all the satsumas in the house. I'm going to buy some more in a minute from the new supermarket on the university campus. It's a hard habit to break, two per day since November... Exciting times.

I finished up the week by watching penguins emerge from the ocean.

[CdM] a penguin automat? I finished the week in the greengrocer's, being reminded that I needed potatoes. I love independent shops.

[CdM] Don't be ridiculous. Amphibians emerged from the oceans, had dinosaur babies who laid penguin eggs. Read a book!

[Dan] I've just reread my bible*, and it says no such thing. In fact it has very little discussion of penguins at all.

[flerdle] I think Coles' and Woolworth's online shopping could probably do that for you as well. And it would save all the pesky hanging around, chatting, making friends and so on.**

*Full disclosure: I do not actually own a bible.
**cf. Sirius Cybercorp.

If you said "Cole's" in the U.S., we'd assume it was Kohl's.

[CdM] It's better in the original Greek anyway.

[CdM] I think the delivery charge to the Netherlands would be a little steep though, wouldn't it?

[pen] For the first time in my life I live walking distance from a greengrocer, and it really changes things. Also many other things, including a fish market and a bakery, most of which are even closer and all of which have appeared since we moved into the neighborhood. I may not have to emigrate after all.

Hmmm, the flerdle/pen conflation. Muss less common than Dan/Dunx

"Muss"?

I need celery, radishes and apples. And onions. Anyone fancy a stroll to the groentenwinkel?

[pen] I'm afraid I'm not able to walk across oceans, nor swim them even if Google says I should be able to do such a thing.

despite staying late at work, the shop was still just open at 7 when i got there. I was probably their last customer of the day. Now to make that celery soup...

I love radishes. Much underrated.

I discovered king oyster mushrooms the other day, on a market stall. Never knew they existed. Truly, the earth continues to bring forth wonders.

[Raak] Though art indeed brave if though tasteth of that most vile fruit of the ground, harvested by the light of the New Moon by debased and foul Tcho-Tchos, who tear them from the curséd soil of Leng - which lieth not fully in this Universe, but doth straddle other, forbidden dimensions across which stride Those Who Shudde Notte Bee, in whose footprints sprout these fungi thou doth prize so highly.

I'm not a fan of mushrooms either.

Can't seem to get anything into MCiOS, any game. Anybody else having problems?

[Rosie] Is working for me.

(Raak) Works OK now.

There seems to be some sort of caching problem. I can post there fine, but when I get to the page I posted to from the main page, the post doesn't appear. But if I post again, all the posts show up. It's like the moves are being made properly, but the front page links are pointing to a stale cache.