Just a quick reminder that some of us are gathering for another pub & grub session next Friday.

Full details in this previous posting.

A year ago today I posted a message to this blog saying that my wife had just given birth to our first child. This was him then:

And here he is now:

Happy 1st Birthday Dylan!

As some readers will know, we’ve had a few evening meetings at London pubs for contributors to and readers of this blog, Times for the Times and Tony Sever’s RTC3. Both times, we’ve also had some setters present. S&B 1-3 were attended by about 20 people each.

Sloggers and Betters 4 is being organised by John Henderson (Enigmatist / Nimrod / Io). If you’d like to go, please send an email to: enigmatist50 at hotmail dot com

Date & locations:

Friday 4th April. Meet 5pm onwards at the Allsop Arms in Gloucester Place NW1, then 8ish to Zen Spicemarket, Melcombe Place NW1 for grub.

Nearest tubes: Baker St, Marylebone (equidistant for pub), Marylebone (for restaurant).

…to all of our readers. Thanks for all your help, support and encouragement in 2007 - we couldn’t have done it without you.

 We’ll aim to blog every day next week except the 25th so do drop by if the festivities get too much for you. Indy solvers will be pleased to hear that nmsindy will be again be producing his review of the year’s puzzles so keep an eye out for that.

Neil 

There’s an article on cryptic crosswords and the competition they face from <affects disdainful look> Sudoku in the Independent today:

 http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article3255986.ece

It’s a bit depressing really.