I think I'm going to be sick :)

My poor old rescued cat is not well, possibly the big C.

I've got a feature to write today. And a press release. Shhhh.

[flerdle] Are you in Melbourne at the moment? I have the school fete this afternoon and it looks like we'll have close to 40° for it. We may only stay for a short while. Adelaide has had 11 straight days of 35°C plus. This looks like it'll be 12 in a row. Poor buggers.

[nfras] nah, I cunningly went north yesterday, so I'm hoping it will be back to "normal" (hah!) by the time I return next week. Hope you survive the fete - stay out of the sun!

I thought it might interest you - a cute little game of MC broke out today on Fark.com. The link.

[Juxtapose] Brilliant!

I'm giggling at players in Each Move Must Consist of Precisely Eight Words who are currently attempting to pick up the game and move it along...

[Softers] Oh shit. How old is the cat?

Has no-one said anything over Easter? I've been away for five days travelling beyond these horizons, climbed more stairs and ladders in more windmills, and become frozen in the process than I care to admit (oh, all right then - three. Two corn mills and a polder (drainage) mill), seen Zuid-Holland covered in snow and had the plane de-iced before taking off to come home, and still you lot are keeping quiet. What's going on?

[pen] OK, we're back. What?

[penelope] Your elipsis (four moves back) left us thinking you'd simply popped out to take the kettle off the stove. Everyone was afraid of interrupting you and looking rude.

[SM] oops. And I thought we were all quiet waiting for more news of Softer's cat...

I hope it stands a better chance than Schrödinger's.

*peeks*. Why? It looks fine to me.

[ImNotJohn] I'm not so sure.

Belatedly testing that I can actually post via proxy. Don't mind me. Sorry, was that your foot?

That's quite funky, though going a bit around the houses...

I've never seen anything like it!

[flerdle and nfras] Sorry to be slow on the uptake - I have only just returned from my travels afar to catch up with the Morniverse. I was in Melbourne myself at the time of your postings, for the Grand Prix. I thought the Friday (the day of the school fete) and the following Monday were the hottest, both nudging forty degrees C. Mind you I'm not complaining, back in Bristol and freezing my proverbials!

I just thought I'd mention; assuming we want the actual Polish pronunciation of £ódŸ (something approaching "wooj"), as a Southerner with Hertfordshire vowels I have all but been locked out of that limerick.

Goodness me... I typed Lodz with a bar on the L and an accent on the z and it went all funny.

Well, I've just taken the only rhyme I can think of for "woodge".