[pen] tips for getting rid of that nagging guilty feeling - do anything and everything possible, keep yourself busy. or do something to feel guilty about - go shoplift. apparently clerks is the most shoplifted video cassette in the USA...

I managed to bag a thermometer-hygrometer thingy in Aus. It's been interesting to see what actual readings have been since returning here, especially inside the house. If you ask nicely I'll say, else I'll spare you. Needless to say, my "can't sleep" point is rather different here. It's amazing what you can put up with if you have to.

By all means, flerdle - at least from me - I always find others' weather interesting. Of course others may well disagree; privacy laws and all that, I suppose.

Well, that brought the conversation to a grinding halt, dinnit? Anyone for a mint? *offers*

I think they've all been eating gob-stoppers, flerdle. ;-)

[flerdle] Does it have a hole in it?

[blamelewis] If you want it to I'm sure we could arrange that. *prepares electric drill*

hey, no playing with drills. play friendly, you lot.

[flerdle] Send the hole over - can you attach it to an email?

Ooh, a pin! *picks up pin*

At approximately 0642 local time, Monday 29th August, I believe Sydney suffered a mild earth tremor.

(Dujon) So it it didn't wake you up, then? Nothing whatever would awaken me at twenty to seven in the morning. Maybe a full bladder. Maybe even a half-full one. :-(

[Duj] Was that the moment England won the 4th test match?

[Rosie] Néa may awaken me any time. (Sorry, Néa, it's only a bit of joshing - OK?)
[Chalky] What on Earth are you doing at this ungodly time of the morn? In answer to your query, no, see the response above. Still, I might now have a cigarette. Care to join me?

[Dujon] I bet you say that to all the girls you play MC with.

[Néa] Only the ones who drop pins. Handkerchiefs are so passé. :-)

Also, presumably that wouldn't wake you.

Brittany was great with a short stroll over the sand dunes to the beach, and come back to home to a scorhing Indian Summer. To make the most of this glorious weather, the ironing board will be set up on the patio this evening. Life is about to settle down into more routine with the schools starting to go back tomorrow.

I'm doing ancient history tomorrow (thursday)... might you be in for a cup of tea later in the day? I'll txt...

As things seem to be rather bleak on the matress front since March I have decided to place an ad in the Personals in the London Review of Books. Might be scuppered by a medical indifference to reading. Advice as ever appreciated

*plans to buy bake a cake* :-)

Ah yes. I might not be around for a bit. Keep the place tidy, will you.

[rab] you dropping in as well?

Funny thing. This Banter Game, although fairly quiet at present, appears to be kept alive by a regular group of MCers. Yet many other long-standing games on this server have a completely different and prolific group of contributors - most of whom never post an entry in here. Why do you suppose that's the case?