huoomm … ? … anybody still around? … rhuom … or being present? … hmhûom … or still being alive? … hmm … except me that is … hooommm … I know it’s the time of the year when so many people choose to spend their precious time “being on holiday” as they put it, instead of helping out here cleaning the premises, as I do, before our dear barkeep returns … gruom … er, Master Twrich, may I sweep around your feet a bit … hm … there’s one tab still working, so you’ll get a fine glass of scrumpy at once … hom … that weed for your pipe as well, of course, as I found a very small sealed barrel of that behind the bar … huommm …