Prudes & Prejudice: ...and so ends the current storyline! Thanks for reading... like a lot of my stories it went off in directions I never quite expected! It seems to have taken a looong time to tell this one, even though I never took any lengthy breaks (apart from a few weeks here and there). Apparently the first page went online on July 20, 2009... so it took over 21 months to work through 90 pages. I really hope you enjoyed them... maybe a going back to the start and giving it a second read through might help with the overall appreciation (or not) of the story (it starts here!). A number of people have commented that this has been one of their favourite stories - possibly due to the nude activism themes rather than the romance angle I saddled it with. Generally though it has generated much less comment from readers than previous stories so I don't know if that reflects a low level of interest or not. Annnyway... phew! It's always a relief to get something like this finished and 90 pages is a lot of pages. Comments and feedback about the comic welcome - via this LJ post or email (unfortunately the forum seems to have died, again).

Next update: With P&P out of the way I'm taking a lengthy break to recharge my creative batteries. I probably should have done it sooner but I really wanted to finish the story for once before going on hiatus. I still have plenty of stories to tell with the folks of the Koala Bares but really need to not have the self-imposed weekly deadline of another The Bare Pit page hanging over me for a while. Also, some of you may have noticed the site is somewhat broken - notably navigation and the forum, so it's time to find a new home and I'll be using the hiatus to sort out those issues. At his stage I'm thinking three, maybe four months. I'll let you know as soon as I've sorted things out. Thanks for reading!

Loxie & Zoot traduit en français ! (translated into French!): here you have it - a French version of Loxie & Zoot! My gratitude to forum regular Cor (and his wife for proofing). Full report on the L&ZLJ/forum (translation).

Cedar's fanfic: regular The Bare Pit reader Cedar has written a fantastic piece of fan fiction - The Same Place, but Not the Same Way (pdf download). The story features Kylie the reporter and Mungo as they embark on a challenging journey together. Cedar has done a great job with these characters and told a wonderful story. It's lengthy (about 90 pages) - a perfect way to kill a bit of time. (BTW, it's all text, no art.) Cedar and I both hope you'll enjoy this story - if you do, please don't be shy with your feedback. I'd like to thank and congratulate Cedar for writing this great piece of fan fiction!

Disclaimer: Some readers have pointed out to me the similarities between the fictional Darcy Fitzwilliam character and real-life Andrew Martinez (an American student who, in the in early 1990s, turned up to college classes nude and campaigned for the right to do so). Despite these surprising similarities between the two, this story is in no way based on Andrew Martinez - I only found out about him once this story had started online and I had already been working on P&P for several weeks before that. A very odd coincidence is all I can say!