Over here one has to move pub to get different closing times, it's all according to the type of licence issued, i.e. whether or not the licensee is able to have live music. Very strange but one gets used to it.

Hmm, looks like this site is about to become target for a lorryload of spam. Will need to think about tightening up the security I guess.

In the meantime, you might want to check the status of our latest building project.

[rab] Nice lav ;o)

[pen] That one's on its way out. The new one is sitting in a box in the spare bedroom.

[Rosie] Glad to hear you have stability again.

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So nice to see we have visitors from another galaxy.

I thought it was one of us posting from a palm raspberry thing straight after emerging from the dentist's surgery.

(pen) :-)

Nice dusting of snow this morning, oddly, more in front of than out the back of the block.

Noting a slot and the date, does anyone have any inspiration for an advent-themed game of MC?

[Tuj] Done. Can you wait up until midnight to make your move? Sorry if that was a bit rude...

[pen] I knew someone would be able to hatch my half-idea =) thank you!

[Tuj] You're going to have to wait another day for a morsel of chocolate. Softers just got today's.

Sorry to interrupt, but I need to get a message through to rab and the firewall here is stopping me posting to OMC/N&Q at the moment. I'm seeing a nod problem with the index page here at MC5. The names and moves displayed on it are not the same as those showing last in the games themselves. Is anyone else seeing this, or is this confined to my proxied-by-idiots world? Am I living in pre-cached hell again?

All looks fine here, Stevie.

Looks like a caching problem at your end, but I've resynched the index with the game data anyway.

[rab] *sighs* Okay. I'll resign myself to never seeing the site in it's real state then.

I could try adding the appropriate http header to try and request a non-cache.

See if that works.

[rab] Seems to have fixed it for now. Clever, you.

It's almost a week since anyone said anything, so I'll break the silence. I think I've moved into the 'finishing off projects' phase at work before my last day in the office on 23 December. How strange this is...

Not at all unusual if you are a proper professional, pen, which I assume you are.

I'm definitely demob happy now. I'm finishing off other people's jobs and bringing mince pies into work. I don't even like mince pies that much.