I have returned the Picky Picky Game to its weekly schedule. The reason for going at double speed was to fill up the home page with non-gash pictures, and this has been achieved. So you have until Thursday night to upload a candidate for panel 19.
We just got back from COMICS 2003, which was fun. We mentioned Picky Picky to as many people as we could, so either the server will be overwhelmed with activity, or no-one will bother clicking though and we will be miserably ignored. Who knows what the future holds?
The journey back was a disaster—approximately 4½ hours (mostly spent waiting in cold drafty stations). A nasty combination of reduced Oxford–Bristol service, engineering works and football game crowds made the train journeys particularly unpleasant—at when there was a substitute bus we got to sit down...