As expected... 
Oh yes.

We are in training for and building up to that much talked about, much coveted, even revered in certain circles accolade, the Not Meeting Meeting Award.
As many will know it was our own loved and still much missed Malcolm who last challenged and won the award and as a token of our respect this will, from now on, be know as the Snoopy Cup Challenge.
The challenge, as many on here will know, is to find a rural location with no phone signal and no internet access. The location must have two hostelries with the same name or names so similar as to be easily confused. A meeting must then be arranged (well in advance) between the challenger/s and Nick.
To win the cup the challenger must sit in a hostelry not occupied by Nick for at least two hours. Nick meanwhile must sit in the same village/hamlet in the pub with the same name (or name so similar as to be easily confused) for a corresponding number of hours.
The challenger and Nick must then berate each other for a period of at least two weeks, unless they are judged to have been berating each other for at least 18 hours a day in which case the adjudicators may decide that a one week period will suffice.
Only when the berating has reached level 10 on the official VP Beratatron (standardised measuring system) will a new winner be declared.
Extra points may be awarded if the challenger remains in the comfort of their own home whilst Nick sits in a pub, however there must still be two hostelries with the same name (or name so similar as to be easily confused) Nick must be sitting in one for an undisclosed length of time, the other within a three mile radius unless there is snow on the ground. Should that be the case Pub Laws apply. See terms and conditions for details.
Terms and conditions not only apply but may be subject to change without prior notice or arrangement.