Yes indeed. UKPuzzle.com has come back to life along with the DIY COW forum. I thought at first it was just UKPuzzle that had successfully migrated to the new host, but they inform me it hasn’t transferred yet and that it’s still on Web-Mania’s servers. This is terrific news – the website AND THE FORUM will migrate in the next couple of days, but it’s available again with immediate effect; none of the sql data has been lost. Break open the champers! For now, let’s complete the current challenge here – this week’s winner can set the new challenge on the original forum.

Here we go with challenge #111courtesy of Boaz. Do your best with UNDERPANTS boys and girls. Instructions are: maximum of FOUR clues each, no editing – deadline Friday 5pm. Have fun.

This week sees the return of The Apprentice on the BBC – a program which, I have to confess, I watch avidly. To celebrate, I have chosen PROFIT as this week’s word.

Something I posted on the anaxcrosswords blog – would seem appropriate to mention it here too! More details via this link: http://anaxcrosswords.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/sloggers-betters-in-june/

Despite several attempts at contact there is no further news from Web-Mania regarding the offline websites.

Gazza has set the word CURRENT as this week’s challenge.

At the moment we have no way of knowing when the forum will be back online. My gut instinct is to say use the next few days to work out some clue ideas (i.e. don’t post them here yet) in readiness for ‘home’ re-opening, but if there’s no sign of that happening by, say, Tuesday evening start posting your clues here. I’ll go with consensus, though; if you feel it’s worthwhile submitting here from the off, please go ahead.

Here we go…

Great news, and a great relief too. One or two of you may have found your way here oblivious to the old phpBB forum, so here it is: http://www.ukpuzzle.com/phpBB3/index.php

Could I ask those of you who have posted MANICURIST clues here to copy them into the proper forum? Many thanks.

Last week’s winner Tesla has put forward MANICURIST for DIY COW 104. Even if we don’t end up using this forum as the pukka clue-writing thing, at least you now have a word to play with. By all means post ideas here! CONTEST FINISHED Results in PDF  form here: DIYCOW104

Hi folks. I’m getting nowhere with the problems at the original DIY COW, so I propose some small measure of preparedness here.