She is renowned for the glint in her eye put there by one of the worlds top glass eye makers. What she lacks in eyes she more than makes up for in warts although from a distance they do make her shimmer with an almost delightful glow and are a fascination to those who read braille. Her hatred of me although only just starting is all consuming and threatens to end my reign as Cheap Jibe Maker to the Pope.

RAAK is, as many have already guessed, an acronym. What few people know is that behind this collection of letters are some of the most fiendishly clever criminal brains in Britain, if not all of Europe. The sometimes cryptic, sometimes passionate, always apposite postings made under the signature RAAK are coded messages between members of the group. But beware! Nobody who has penetrated this disguise has

Some biscuits - a nice hot cup of tea - Dunx.

The all-seeing-eye. From her base in Brisbane, flerdle's network of optical monitors, run undercover from her position as a mild-mannered, white-coated researcher and tutor at the state's leading ophthamology-teaching university, enable her to keep tabs on the global goings on in the world of MC. She can usually be tracked down by following a trail of cinnamon and raisin toast crumbs and empty hot chocolate cups.

Oddly, she isn't.