Casino Morale: They took away Lotto. Then they gave it back. (For five years, at least). Manning and his bunch fail to realise that addition — not subtraction — may be the key. This is the man, after all, who talked a couple of years back about wanting to clean up Carnival by stopping people from wining and wearing skimpy outfits. Social investment, Patrick. Offering people options, via a education system that understands the people it’s serving, so that maybe folks might choose one day to do something on a Saturday night besides gamble, drink, smoke or lock somebody’s neck. (Or maybe they’ll choose to gamble, drink and smoke anyway, because there’s a little thing called free will that those of us who, unlike you, don’t have a direct line to the Almighty, choose to exercise sometimes). Be careful, Patrick — there are people out there who wish to smelt you.

Delphine: She blogged today. Still trying to clean the dirty paw-marks off the keyboard.

Oso: Will love again, just you wait and see.

Alix: My nephew is the greatest kid in the world.