Quizzy Mondays 2026-27 Week 1: University Challenge R1M1, Only Connect R1M1, Mastermind Heat 1

Good evening my friends, and welcome to the new season of Quizzy Mondays! Much needed as well, as the few months since we were last year have been somewhat sad in all honesty, with the Radio 4 quiz pilots providing some much needed cheer. My review of the last of these, Around the World in 80 Ways, coming up next Tuesday once the second episode has gone out. For now though, down to business; coming up, some confusion about Only Connect, but first, on with the new series of UC...

 

Bristol have been fairly regular senders of UC teams in the BBC era, this is their 21st; last year's team exited in the second round, but the two beforehand reached the semis and the final respectively. Playing for them this year were:

Jake Wingfield, from Kidderminster, studying Music

Francesca O'Connor, from East Grinstead, studying English and History

Captain: Freddie Burns, from Stroud, studying Quantum Computing

Artem Borisov, from Moscow, studying Maths and Computer Science

 

Imperial have only appeared in 17 previous BBC series, but their record is exemplary, with a joint record five series wins and a further seven teams reaching at least the QFs; last year's team were defeated by eventual winners Manchester in the semis. This year's line-up, with a lot to live up to, were:

Dennis Reppen, from Chicago, studying Taxonomy

Lola Linnane-Barron, from London, studying Pure Maths

Captain: Charlie Lowman, from Chester, studying Maths

Edward Israngkura Na Ayudhya, from Bangkok, studying Advanced Chemical Engineering  

 

So, off we set on another series, and it was Charlie Lowman who took the first starter of the series, for Imperial, who took all three bonuses. Bristol's first contribution of the series was an unfortunate penalty, but they soon got going as well; after the first picture round, the teams were tied on 35-each. The London side pressed ahead then with two starters in a row, but an unlucky penalty of their own allowed Bristol back in. It was a brief blip in a productive second quarter for Imperial; after the music round, they led 110-55.

 

Another starter took Imperial within sight of a three figure lead, but Bristol managed to get a run together and, after the second picture round, they'd suddenly cut the gap to 130-110. But Imperial reawoke with a starter and full set of bonuses. Bristol took the next to keep the pressure on them, but a late rally saw the Londoners race away and soon reach 200. Bristol did keep their score ticking over as well though, thus ensuring they'll almost certainly be back in the repechage. At the gong, Imperial won 220-160.

 

An excellent start to the new series, two very impressive teams, well played to both of them. Well done Imperial, carry on like that and we'll be seeing them in the later stages again; best of luck to them, for now though, in the second round! Hard lines to Bristol, but they'll almost certainly be back in the repechage with a score as good as that; best of luck to them in that.

 

The stats: Messrs Reppen and Lowman were joint best buzzers of the night with five each, while Messrs Wingfield and Burns were joint best for Bristol with three each. On the bonuses, Bristol managed 16 out of 27 (with two penalties) and Imperial 22 out of 36 (also with two penalties), and, pleasingly for the first show of the series, all eight players got at least one starter correct.

 

Next week's match: Durham vs Manchester

 

Only Connect’s returned for its 22nd series, which the BBC website claims will run for 34 episodes, but the host claimed at the start will be 38 episodes long. Whichever it is, how it would work, I don’t know. Surely they’re not going to do the double elimination format AGAIN when they’re down to eight teams after the initial play-off round; that would be even worse than the Series 12 and 13 formats that dragged on and on and on. Hopefully all will become clear in due course and it won’t be as faffy as that. Seriously, what was wrong with the existing format? (Or maybe there are going to be lots of Christmas specials and they’re counting them towards the total)

 

Anyway, the series was opened by the Culture Club, Charlie Brookfield, Viki Owen and captain Hugh Adler, and the Makeweights, Omer Elchanan, Isaac Barden and captain Eleanor Stiles.

 

I don’t think me or my parents got any questions completely right in the first round, though we came close on a few of them (and I was a bit distracted during it as well TBF); the teams were tied on 3-each at the end of that. I claimed our first points of the series, the same three as the Makeweights, on the KPop Demon Hunters question in the second round; my Dad claims three on the most translated authors question. The Makeweights led 10-6 after that round.

 

On to the Walls, and the Culture Club went first, and polished off their wall pretty easily for a full ten. The Makeweights did likewise, so, as you were, they led 20-16 going into Missing Vowels. They maintained their lead in that to win 25-21. Well played both teams, an excellent start to the series; best of luck in your next games!

 

Mastermind’s first episode of its new series was won by David Rhodes, who won with 22 points, four ahead of second placed Ravi Meah with 18. Sarah Klein and Holly Simmons completed the first line-up of the series, finishing with 15 and 16 respectively.

 

And that's the first week of the new season done! Thanks as ever for reading; hopefully the fact I've been rather distracted this week by how warm it is in my flat hasn't spoiled your enjoyment of it too much. Back same time same place next week with the second instalment, followed by my review of the final Radio 4 pilot next Tuesday; so, see yous then... 

Your Number's Up: New Radio 4 Quiz 3

Greeting friends! And I come bearing good news: Quizzy Mondays returns with a full line-up next Monday! So, tune back in this time next week for my first write-up of the series. That's then though; this is now, and now we have another of Radio 4's pilot quizzes to look at.

 

So, so far we've had Bookmarks, which is an excellent show a couple of tweaks away from greatness, and Deja News, which is a good show but probably better suited for Fridays at 6:30 than the Sunday quiz slot. Next up, we have Your Number's Up...

 

Now, Max Fosh is not someone I was familiar with before this show, but my first impressions of him here were positive. In fact, given that this show is apparently made by the same people as QI, I'm quite surprised he hasn't been on that show since given how large and diverse its cast has become in the last few series. Here, he does an excellent job, has a strong handle on the format and can add plenty of humour to proceedings when needed.

 

So, once again, this is a quiz contested by teams of two. Like Bookmarks, they are introduced on first name terms only; I'm pretty sure though that the two on one of the second show's teams were Katie Steckles and Paul Taylor of OC S16 winners the Puzzle Hunters. (I could also hazard an educated guess on who the other team were)

 

Round 1 then; Max asks the teams a series of trivia based maths questions (for example "The number of teams in the English Premier League minus the number of teams in the Scottish Premiership"), first team to buzz in with the correct answer AND show their workings (for example, eight, because it's twenty English teams minus twelve Scottish teams) gets a point. A gentle and easy to understand start to the show to get proceedings underway.

 

Round 2 is Estimate Guestimate; this round takes quite a long time and eats up almost half the show, but it's still a good round. One team is sent backstage, the other is asked a long and complicated maths question, accompanied by music; for example, one of the questions on the first show was "Lou Bega decides to send a Valentine's Day card to all the women mentioned in his hit song Mambo No 5 and, to save money, decides to do so second class; how much money does he spend on stamps?".

 

Once the team has taken their time to work it out the best they can and have a guess, they go backstage and the other team comes back and attempts the same question (albeit without the music this time!). After both teams have answered, they are both brought in to hear the correct answer; closest team gets two points. And, if their answer is closer than the average guess of the audience, they get a bonus two points.

 

A second question is then asked, this time with the team who went second last time going first this time, but otherwise it's the same.

 

Despite the fact it takes quite a long time, this is still a perfectly good round. If you wanted to cut it down a bit, you could maybe have both teams attempt one question each and work out some other way of awarding the points.

 

The third round was different on the two shows. In the first, Round 3 was a simple variant of the card game Pontoon: Max asks the teams to write down as many correct answers to a certain category as they wish to; in the show we got, the category was "Eurovision winning nations". Standard Blackjack rules apply: closest to 21 without going over are the winners; 22 or more and you're bust. As it happened, both teams went bust!

 

This probably explains why they changed it for the second show. In that, Round 3 was much simpler: Max gives both teams a series of categories and they have to say whether there are more or less than ten of them (ie series of Red Dwarf broadcast on the BBC, which would be less as there were eight). Both have one minute to get through as many as possible; one point for each correct answer.

 

On balance, I think the second third round is probably the better one and, if it gets picked up for a full series, that's the one I'd run with. 

 

And the final round is probably the best of the show: Max asks the teams a series of maths cum trivia questions (eg number of Scottish top flight titles Celtic have won, or 224 divided by four; answer to both is 56); first to buzz in correctly gets a point.

 

I enjoyed this show a lot more than I thought I would. Max is an excellent host, the questions, far from being out of the league of a non-maths person like myself, are very fun and easy to play along with and, while the second round is quite long, it all flows reasonably quickly enough that you won't get bored. If you wanted to cut this round down as I suggested with both teams facing just one question each, you could always do both the Pontoon and the More or Less round to fill in the extra time.

 

Overall, this is another excellent show, and I definitely think you could get a full series out of it; maybe an eight team three round series of seven/eight episodes. But, yeah, another winner; if there really is only room for on of these pilots to get picked up, I don't envy whoever it is who has to decide which of the three we've had so far gets the nod.

 

One last of these pilots to go: Around the World in 80 Ways, hosted by Simon Reeve, begins its two week run this coming Sunday. Review of that coming back a fortnight tomorrow.

 

Firstly, though, we have the small matter of the return of Quizzy Mondays next week! See yous next Monday with my first write-up of the season; until then, sayonara... 

Deja News: New Radio 4 Quiz 2

OK, so a couple of weeks ago, I reviewed Bookmarks, the first of the new quiz shows Radio 4 is piloting in the Sunday quiz slot. I thought it was a good show, a couple of tweaks away from being a great one, and that it would be tough for the remaining three to beat.

 

Well, I don't think Deja News quite managed to beat it, but it too is only a few adjustments away from potentially doing so.

 

Like Bookmarks, this is another chatty, light hearted quiz, and, also like Bookmarks, it has a host very well suited for such a quiz, this time Lucy Porter. The show is contested by two teams of two, another similarity to Bookmarks, except the contestants are introduced by their full names this time.

 

The difference is, whereas Bookmarks featured a fair amount of banter to pad out a relative lack of questions, Deja News keeps them coming reasonably thick and fast. The show has six rounds, all of which Lucy has given names to; I can't remember all the names, so I'm just going to go through them and explain them in order.

 

The first round is a fairly direct lift from University Challenge: the teams are played an old news clip and have to identify the story. First to buzz in with the correct answer gets one point (I think) and three (usually pretty easy) bonus questions related to said story. In both episodes, one team dominated this round and led by a double digit score to the other team's nul points at the end of it. This might be something to consider changing a bit if the show gets a full series.

 

The second round is about vox pops. Both teams are played a maximum of three of these and have to identify the news story they refer to; they get three points if they can get it after the first, two after the second and one after the third.

 

Round 3, both teams are played a selection of three archive clips all from the same decade (the team in the lead gets a choice of decade); they have two jobs here, identify the news stories and place them in chronological order. One point for each story identified, and a bonus three is they get all of them in the right order.

 

Round 4 is probably the weak link of the current rounds IMO: the teams are played two voice clips each, sent in by members of the public, whose names and ages are given, who are talking about an event that happened in their lifetime. The teams, again, simply have to name the event. Whereas the other rounds all feature BBC archive material, this one doesn't and so feels a bit out of place to me.

 

The fifth round is by far and away the toughest: the teams are played three archive clips and are asked to perform an arithmetical sum with various numbers related to them! Something like, the year of the first clip minus the year of the second (which will only be a couple of years earlier to ensure we get a small number), then times that number by one related to the third clip. Only once in the two shows did a team get their question right in this round, the other three being one, one and two out IIRC!

 

And the final round is a nice simple sprint to the finish: the teams are played a series of fairly well known archive clips, all of which have their last three words omitted; one point if you buzz in and get it right (interruptions are allowed), minus one if you're wrong (even by one letter, it has to be absolutely spot on).

 

The show is a fun listen, but, like I say there are a few things I'd change if it were to get a full series. For a start, I'd probably bin the voice notes round; you could easily expand one of the other rounds to make up the time. Also, I'd maybe move the UC-style round to later in the show given how one-sided it was in the two shows we've had which kinda meant both were over after the first round.

 

I do have another suggestion, one which isn't about the show itself, but rather, when it'd be on.

 

A few years ago, similar to what they are currently doing in the Sunday quiz slot, Radio 4 did a run of one-episode pilot shows in the Friday night 6:30 comedy slot (the 'topical news' slot). Two of these were subsequently picked up for full series: one was the Naked Week (or the "No, it's nothing to do with witches" show are many of you may know it!), which has seamlessly taken over the slot vacated by the Now Show.

 

The other is Catherine Bohart: TLDR, in which the eponymous comedian and various guests talks about a single news story for the entire show, which, for the last two years, has run in the slot over the summer months. It's an alright enough show, but, compared to the Naked Week, Dead Ringers and, at a push, the News Quiz (which, despite being well past its best, can still be sufficiently amusing occasionally), all o which get at least two series a year, it's the weakest show in the slot at the moment.

 

Deja News, on the other hand, I can see fitting into that slot very well. You could do it either with civilians like it already does, or you could easily replace them with comedians et al; there'd no doubt be plenty of them available. More to the point, I actually think the current six round setup might actually work better with comedians than civilians, so they wouldn't have to make any tweaks, which would be a plus.

 

So, overall, Deja News is a good show and I'd definitely welcome a full series of it, but maybe not in the quiz slot; I think it'd fit into the Friday 6:30 slot better.

 

Anyway, two down, two to go (I think). Next up, starting this coming Sunday, is Your Number's Up, a maths based show hosted by comedian Max Fosh, who I am not familiar with, but I look forward to seeing how this show works. It's got its work cut out though, following on from the two we've had so far.

 

Back in two weeks' time with my review of that. And, by then, we may well know when/if Quizzy Mondays are coming back as well, so watch this space. Until then, sayonara. 

Bookmarks: New Radio 4 Quiz 1

Greetings friends! Hope you're all enjoying the Quizzy Mondays recess; I suspect we'll be having six more weeks off left and we'll be back for the new season on July the 20th, the day after the World Cup final, but we'll see.

 

In the meantime, with both The 3rd Degree and Quote Unquote gone, Radio 4 is trying out some new quizzes in the Sunday afternoon (and Saturday late night) quiz slot, all getting two episode pilot runs. The first of them had its second episode yesterday and, I'll be honest, it's going to be tough for the others to beat.

 

So, if you're after a snappy quiz show with a constant stream of question like UC or Brain of Britain, then Bookmarks isn't that. It is very much in the Only Connect mould, with banter between the host and the contestants just as important as the questions. Thankfully, said host is Clare Balding, who is right at home in this sort of atmosphere, and so does as excellent a job as you'd expect.

 

The quiz is contested by two teams of two, both of whom are introduced by their first names only. This is something I'd like to see change if the show gets picked up for a full series, but that's because my quiz viewing/listening thrives on name recognition. The two episodes saw some familiar names and voices, but I can't say for sure.

 

The first round sees both teams asked five general knowledge literature questions, each worth one point. If they get one wrong, they are not told the correct answer, as the correct answers are all clues to a mystery book; if they can identify said mystery book, they get a bonus three points. There are no bonuses for the other team.

 

This is followed by the first 'specialist' round, where one of the members of each team is asked a series of five questions on a book of their choice. (And it can be any book you like; one contestant's book of choice was Murder on the Orient Express, another's was a Delia Smith cookbook!) This time, if they get one wrong, it does go over to the other team, for a two-point bonus.

 

Round 2 is probably the weakest round of the show. Clare names a subject (in the two episodes we've had so far, the subjects were 'Stephen King novels' and 'Charles Dickens completed novels'), and the teams are asked to bid on how many of them they think they can name. Highest bidders get three points if they can fulfil their bid. As this happened on both shows, I can't say for sure what happens if they fail and it goes to the other team. There is also a 'golden answer' that, if they get, they get a three point bonus.

 

If the show gets a full series, I would probably adjust this round slightly to a closer variant of the lists round from The 3rd Degree, whereby both teams get a subject, with either the team in front or the team trailing getting a choice of two and the other team the other and getting to name how many correct answers both teams have to get. They could easily trim a bit of banter so there'd be time for this.

 

After the second specialist round featuring the remaining two contestants, the final round is an anagrams round, where Clare names a category and then four anagrams of four of that category. This is a decent enough finale to the show, and very much gives Only Connect Missing Vowels vibes. In fact, it reminds me very much of the audio only version of that which they did in the Sound special a couple of years ago.

 

The fact that there's no flat out buzzer round like on Counterpoint is maybe a bit of a miss for me, but maybe that's just because I'm used to that show and not used to this one, yet. Apart from the somewhat unbalanced second round, the current rounds are fine enough.

 

Another thing I'd probably change in a full series is the soundtrack. The theme tune is fine enough, as are the stings between rounds, but the applause, which sounds very canned to me (though I'll happily retract if someone involved in the show confirms otherwise), can be done away with, as I personally found it a bit jarring.

 

But overall, Bookmarks was a fun listen and, with a few tweaks, definitely has the potential to be a worthy addition to the Radio 4 quiz stable. The two episodes we've had were simple standalone quizzes; a full series would presumably either carry on in this vein (like The 3rd Degree did) or could easily be adapted into a tournament. Maybe eight teams compete in a first round, winners goes through to the semis, winners of that go through to the final, and you could maybe throw in a third place play-off as well to get an even number of episodes.

 

There are at least three more new quizzes to come, the first of which, Deja News, hosted by Lucy Porter, has the first of its two 'pilots' this coming Sunday; but, as I said at the start, Bookmarks is going to be tough to beat.

 

So, I'll be back in two weeks' time with my review of Deja News; see you then I guess... 

Quizzy Mondays 2025-26 Week 37: University Challenge Grand Final, Mastermind Grand Final

Hello my friends, and welcome to the last Quizzy Monday of the season! Yep, we're done on all fronts tonight with UC and Mastermind both reaching their conclusions! I'm not sure if this makes the two month break Mastermind took over the New Year worth it, but it's certainly very neat indeed! Write-up of that coming up, but, firstly, the final of one of the most fascinating series of UC for a while, between two teams neither of whom looked like champions going into the second round, let alone the QFs, but whoever did win would be a most worthy winner.

 

Edinburgh got here undefeated with victories over Newcastle in Round 1, Trinity of Cambridge in Round 2, their opponents tonight in their first QF, Merton in their second and Darwin in their semi-final 155-110. Hoping for a second title for their university were:

Parthav Easwar, from Portland, Oregon, studying Sustainable Lands and Cities

Johnny Richards, from Los Angeles, studying Ancient DNA

Captain: Alice Leonard, from Portsmouth, studying Environment, Culture and Society

Rayhana Amjad, from Dublin and Glasgow, studying Computer Science

 

Manchester defeated New College of Oxford in the first round and L.S.E. in the second, then lost their first QF to their opponents tonight, recovered by beating U.C.L. in their second and Sheffield in their third, before easily winning their SF against Imperial 250-70. Hoping for a joint record fifth title were:

Ray Power, from Bangkok, studying Film Studies and English Literature

Kirsty Dickson, from Morley Green in Cheshire, studying Medicine

Captain: Kai Madgwick, from Fowey in Cornwall, studying AI and Astrophysics

Rob Faulkner, from Norwich, studying Physics with Astrophysics

 

The final began with... neither team getting the first starter! The second was very quickly answered by, who else, Kai Madgwick, and their team took two of their first bonuses. Edinburgh's own lead buzzer Rayhana Amjad took the third, and they took opened with a pair of bonuses. Mr Richards then gave Edinburgh the lead with a starter and all three bonuses. The first picture round went to Manchester though, which allowed them to cut the gap to 45-30. And now the Manchester captain hit their stride, taking three starters in a row as they eked into a strong lead. Edinburgh got going again with the music round; after the music bonuses, they now trailed 90-55.

 

Another starter was dropped before the Manchester captain put their side into three figures first, which was followed by one bonus. But back came Edinburgh with two starters in a row, but only one bonus followed from the two sets. The second picture round went to Manchester, after which they led 115-80. Still either team's game, and Mr Easwar kept Edinburgh in the game with the next starter, which was followed by a single bonus, and a(n unlucky) penalty to Manchester left the gap at 15. But who else by Kai Madgwick steadied their ship with the next starter, which was, again, followed by one bonus. And, when the Manchester captain took the next starter, that was game over. Edinburgh did take the final starter to deservedly reach three figures, but there was no time for any bonuses. At the gong, Manchester won the match and the series 145-105!

 

For the second series in a row, we went on location, this time to the Clapham Grand theatre, where the chairman and the two teams were joined by the legend that is Miriam Margolyes, who was, of course, a contestant on the show way back in its very earliest days. She said a few words, before handing Kai Madgwick the trophy.

 

An excellent end to the series; well played both teams! Hard lines to Edinburgh, but they definitely played their part and would've been worthy winners as well; well played and thanks for playing! Very very well done Manchester, worthy champions; many congratulations indeed!

 

The stats: Kai Madgwick was, yet again, the best buzzer of the night, with all NINE(!) of their team's starters, giving them a final total of 57(!) over seven matches (surely some sort of record), while Rayhana Amjad was best for Edinburgh with four, and was also their best for the series as a whole with a total of 25 over six games. On the bonuses, Edinburgh manged 8 out of 19 (with one penalty) and Manchester 13 out of 27 (with two penalties).

 

And that's it; we're done! Thanks to all involved on another great, and fascinating, series; here's to the next!

 

Mastermind’s fifth Grand Final of the Clive Myrie era was opened by Lorna Frankel, who was answering on Dame Julie Andrews; the traditional pre-SS round video clip saw her, among other things, practicing for the show, with her boyfriend and former OC teammate Steve Barnes as question master. She made a couple of mistakes, but kept a good pace and finished the round with 11. She was followed into the chair by Ross Taylor, who was answering on the films of Danny Boyle; his pre-round clip also saw him having a practice, with his young son asking him the questions. He made just a single mistake in his round, and took the lead with 13.

 

Next up was Danielle Connolly, who was answering on Beatrix Potter, with his VT showing her visiting the author’s home in Camfield in Hertfordshire and getting a good luck message from Dawn French, who played her on screen; she also made a couple of mistakes, one of them a pass, but did still manage to equal Lorna’s score of 11. She was followed into the chair by David Ford, who was answering on Robert Burns, which I thought would see him visit Alloway for his TV, but instead, he went to Burns’ farm near Dumfries where he wrote a lot of his work; he didn’t make any mistakes that I noticed until the very last question of the round, which saw him finish with 10 points.

 

Next up was Miles Searle, who was answering on Notre-Dame Cathedral; despite being a student studying in Paris, his VT didn’t actually see him go there himself, but instead have a virtual chat with an expert on its history. The round started well, but then a run of wrong answers sent him off the pace; a late rally saw him reach 8 points, but, you’d have to say, that probably ruled him out of the running sadly. Finally, Diane Howe was answering on the astronaut Jim Lovell, with her VT seeing her visit the National Space Centre in Leicester and get a good luck message from Tim Peake; a single wrong answer aside, and only just at that, she squeezed into second place in the half-time table with 12.

 

So, to GK to decide the champion. Miles returned first, knowing he was probably out of the running, and a few wrong answers early in the round confirmed this; he at least did enough to take the lead, scoring 9 for a perfectly fine total of 17, which wouldn’t be a winning score, but he’s still a Mastermind finalist and that can never be taken away from him. David returned next, and quickly equalled Miles’ total, before a run of wrong answers stalled his round completely; he did recover for a late rally to score another 10, taking his total to 20, also probably not a winning score, but still very decent indeed.

 

Lorna was next, and seemed to have gone for the tactic of staring into space so as not to be distracted by anything, a good tactic used by at least one previous winner; it worked well too, as she rattled through the questions well, not dwelling on mistakes, and scored a very good 14 for a great total of 25, which really did put a benchmark down for the remaining contenders. Danielle didn’t manage to better it, but did put down a perfectly decent round, scoring 10 for a total of 21.

 

Next up was Diane, who started strongly, then, as she approached Lorna’s score, began to slow down a bit; just in time, she picked up the pace again and finished having scored 13, and thus equalled Lorna’s total of 25! And, with neither having either passes, left the prospect of a tie-breaker very much open!

 

Unless Ross could beat it of course. He started strongly, but then also hit a run of questions he didn’t know, and then incurred two passes, which meant he’d now have to beat the two ladies’ score to win. With time running out, it looked like he wouldn’t make it, and indeed he fell just short, scoring 11 for a still very good total of 24.

 

Which meant Lorna and Diane, both with 25 points and no passes, would indeed face a tie-breaker to decide who was the winner. And, when Diane was revealed to have gotten the third question correct where Lorna hadn’t, we knew then that she was the winner! And indeed she was, with 28 points to Lorna’s 27. Many congratulations to her, a most worthy winner! And many thanks to the others, Lorna especially who came so close (and kudos to Clive and Diane for acknowledging that at the end), on an excellent end to the series! Here’s to the next when it starts!

 

(And, when it does, hopefully TPTB will have finally taken on board the need for some form of second chance for high scoring first round runners-up)

 

And that's it for the final week of the season! Thanks as ever for reading, both tonight and throughout the year; we'll go again in July hopefully. In the meantime, I'm not sure whether I'm going to do any Spring filler this year; I had an idea, but I'm not sure if I'm up for doing it or not, watch this space. So, for now, until we next meet, sayonara...