You wait ages for a post, then three come along at once.

It seems Wigan is going to get its own version of Monopoly after it saw off (what must have been tough) competition from Bolton and Preston.

Needless to say, we shall be buying our copy. After all, it'll teach Isobel both how to play Monopoly AND about the geography of the NorthWest's most depressing town. Actually thinking about it, that's probably Leigh - but you know what I mean.

All those people wandering around Manchester carrying 'MUFC NOT FOR SALE' banners haven't quite grasped the idea of a public company, have they?

Well, it went for £67. I did quite well, actually. Two more have been up for sale, and the most either of them has gone for was £40. Wahey!

You have to be careful with eBay though - it can take over your life.

In other news, my nephew is imminent but not yet here.

Two days and three hours to go, and the mystery package is up to £31. I have a feeling it may go through the roof...

Gosh. No posts for six weeks.

What's been happening? Not a lot, frankly. I've been working away, we went to Brittany for the weekend last weekend, and we had some friends over this weekend.

One thing that's happened is that I was doing a bit of research into Internet games for one of my clients the other week, and found out about something called Perplex City - which is one of those big puzzle things like the Nokia Game a few years ago.

Anyway - I signed up, and a couple of weeks ago got an email with a frankly very simple riddle in it. It said that the first 333 people to send the solution would get a gift, which presumably is something that will help you win the prize of €150,000.

I wasn't very busy, and I happened to see the email arive at my desk, so I sent off my solution and promptly forgot about it. until Saturday, when the pack arrived. it was a bunch of stickers, postcards, a pin and all the rest of it. Which was lovely.

Now frankly I'm not all that interested in the game itself - because I know I'm not really going to put in the effort required to win the prize. I have a wife, a daughter, a job, a life and all the rest of it. So I thought I'd put it on eBay and see what happened.

Well, the short answer, for the first day, was nothing. Nobody looked at it, even. But this morning I woke up and found about 10 questions from eBayers in my inbox - asking questions like "prove it's genuine" and "do you post to the US?"

I looked at the item,and so far it's been looked at by 163 people (from a standing start yesterday), I've had two bids, and 10 people are watching. It closes on Thursday - and I'm expecting a bidding frenzy. Frankly if nobody else bids on it at all I've still turned nothing into £5.50, but I genuinely wouldn't be surprised now if it didn't go for £50.

Bizarre, eh?