Come along and we can cross the bridge together

As I've previously mentioned, my favourite website in the world is offline at the moment. And Captain Vegetable, the owner and creator of Virtual Pooh Sticks, is impossible to contact, so nobody knows what's happening, except that his reassuring message has reappeared on the VPS website, promising to get it fixed as soon as he finds the time. Which I suppose is better than nothing. Fractionally.