(Phil) I think the manager may have seen sense, though not through customer persuasion AFAIK, because there is now a completely new regime after less than a fortnight of this arbitrary stuff and the pub now has a 24-hr licence all week and is advertised (in the bar) as being open from midday to 11.30 a.m., the half-hour closed being apparently to put a few things in order each day. There is no mention of management discretion on the notice. Does this mean I can stay there drinking, probably alone, until 4 in the morning (say)? What on earth is the point of that because Carshalton is not exactly Soho. I'd like to know what's going on but the barman (not the manager) couldn't help, or wouldn't.

[Rosie] Have you been in the bar since Monday then?

(Phil) Sanity has prevailed with the appearance of yet another regime in which closing time is 1130 (pm) except Friday and Saturday which are midnight and Sundays which are 11 pm. These are modest extensions to the original times. The manager could have kept his itchy fingers off the keyboard and printer until he'd made his mind up but all's well that ends well.
(pen) Shurrup. Wha' if I 'ave? :-)

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?