What we have been up to
A running diary of the trio: books landing, games built, proofs argued over, and the odd piece of nonsense. Newest first.
14 November 2026 News
Two more things have turned up at the shop. There is a mug, Jo and William, with Jo the Chairperson on it in her red hoodie, holding a carp. And there is a one-thousand-piece Haunted Lancashire jigsaw of old stone arches and mossy walls, for anyone who fancies a mystery that stays on the table. Reginald would like it noted that the sign over the door now says Merch, and that he did say.
14 November 2026 Games
The Employee of the Month asked for a game of his own and got one. In Reggie’s Red Light, Green Light, Reggie stands at the far end with his back turned while the music plays. When it stops he turns round, and anybody still moving is slapped with a wet fish from the fish-slapping gun and falls over.
You can run as the Ferret, Jo or any of the six cats, against the other seven. Hold to run, let go to freeze. Each round the tune gets quicker and Reggie gets nosier. It has a top three in the arcade, which is empty and waiting. The tune is new, and Reggie has not heard this one either.
14 November 2026 Nonsense
The Ferret has started a staff recognition scheme, and the first Employee of the Month is Reggie. He gets a badge on his listings and on every portrait of him on the site until November ends, when it comes off by itself.
There is a page for it, Employee of the Month, with a certificate, a citation read out by Terry through his teeth, an acceptance speech, performance reviews for everybody who did not win, and a Hall of Fame with one name in it. The Ferret picks the winner. No sales figures are involved, and Arthur slept through the ceremony.
14 November 2026 Nonsense
Terry has published a monthly comic. The Magnificent Nonsense is sixteen colour pages: a four-panel story each for the Ferret, Jo and all six cats, then the cousins, puzzles, a problem page and a back cover. The adventures are invented, inspired by who everyone is rather than anything that actually happened, and it says so on the page. Reggie read it through and found one joke that made him look as if he had edited it. He had not been asked, so the joke has been changed. The next issue is Terry’s to prepare, so he will invoice for it in due course.
14 November 2026 The cats
Every cat now has an illustrated portrait, and so do Terry, Reggie, the Ferret and Jo. Arthur is in his wig, Spyro in a crown and Trixie in a uniform that does not resemble anybody in particular. They are on the cats page, Our Story, the Accord, the invoices, the tribunal and the shop. Reggie cannot draw, supplied the brief and stood well back.
14 November 2026 News
There is now a monthly membership on Ko-fi: £3 a month, entirely optional, cancel any time. Friends get occasional early looks at new books and games through members-only posts, ahead of the website. There is no fixed schedule and no pressure, and the cats will take the credit.
14 November 2026 The cats
The Dreamies buttons now ask which cat you would like to buy a bag for. Each of the six has a thank-you certificate of their own, and every tip goes towards the books and this site. Arthur is still owed the most. He has mentioned it.
14 November 2026 The site
There is now a sign-up box on the home page, the Books page and the shop. Leave an email address and you will hear when a book lands, starting with tomorrow’s. It is run through a service called Buttondown, every email has an unsubscribe link, and nothing will be sent unless there is something to say.
14 November 2026 Books
The Great British Disagreement goes on sale tomorrow, Sunday 15 November. Seventeen rows, a full-colour paperback, and Arthur presiding. The Ferret says it is definitely coming, and has said so in writing, which under the Accord counts.
One correction to our own record. On 11 November this Log said the book would not go on sale until a printed copy had been held, read and approved. It is going on sale without waiting for that, and the earlier entry now says so.
The link to buy it will go on the Books page as soon as there is one. Until then, Arthur’s Tribunal will keep you in practice.
14 November 2026 The site
Terry was sent round to inspect the Cousin’s workmanship. He found the building to have character and the signposts to need work, and he admitted, in what he asked to be treated as confidence, that the work was competent. It is recorded here for that reason.
On his advice the menu is shorter, with the less-visited pages under Explore, and on a phone it folds away behind a Menu button. The home page now has one big button, for the books. The three things called Tribunal each say what they are. Doubtful scores are no longer threatened with naming. And each of the four published books has a sample to read, picked at random and kept only if it was funny or worth the time.
He also asked whether Our Story was telling the truth about how the books are checked. It was overstating it, so it has been rewritten to say what actually happens. Two credit lines on the Books page were corrected at the same time.
14 November 2026 The site
Every game, every book, both shirts and the trailer now have a Share button. Press it and you get WhatsApp, Facebook, X, email and a plain copy-the-link, and on a phone the phone’s own share menu as well. They are ordinary links. Nothing is tracked and nothing loads from anybody else’s servers.
14 November 2026 Games
The Ferret asked for a crime caper of epic proportion, with all six cats, tricycles, stolen Dreamies and silly chase music. Grand Theft Kitty is now in the arcade. You pedal along a promenade, ride into anybody holding a packet and swerve round the bollards, bins, deckchairs, constables and seagulls. The longer you last, the hotter it gets and the faster the tune goes.
You start with Arthur. Everything you steal goes in the bank, and the bank recruits the rest of the gang one at a time: Daisy, Dexter, Trixie, Tilly and finally Spyro, each with an advantage of their own. The game has its own top three. The first name on it belongs to the management, and is there to be beaten. The tune is new. The cats were not consulted.
14 November 2026 Games
Arthur’s Tribunal, The Moulding Museum Adventure and The Unemployable Arcade now each show their top three players on the arcade page. The Lion and Albert and the advent calendar are about the story, so they have no scoreboard.
The first name on all three boards is BanditBurns: 832 points as Arthur, 28 of 30 drips caught in the museum, and all twelve stars in the Unemployable Arcade. Think you can beat him? Send in your score. Scores are self-reported and read by a human before they go up. Each of the three games now has a “Send in your score” link on its end screen, which fills in the form for you.
14 November 2026 Nonsense
The first reader’s letter to the tribunal arrived this morning, from an angry wife in the Mancave. Her husband steps out of his clothes every night and leaves them where they fall, and she folds them in the morning. Who should be doing the folding?
Arthur ruled for the wife, with costs. The husband gets a week of folding, in the morning, in full view of the complainant, with the corners matched. The ruling is final, binding and entirely unenforceable.
14 November 2026 The cats
The cats page now has photographs. All six justices have sat for galleries. Highlights of the session include Trixie in a Trick or Treat bowl, Tilly mid-yawn on a table of Lego, and Daisy peering out of a cardboard gingerbread house.
Arthur, as Chief Justice, was the last to attend. He took his time, and was eventually found sitting in a cupboard full of cat food. The court is looking into it.
14 November 2026 News
There is a new weather page. Pick a place, and Terry and Reggie read the same live numbers and disagree about them. It has live conditions, an hourly strip, a week ahead, the tides and cartoon icons. The tides come from a computer model, so it says so on the page and sends you to the official tables for anything that matters. Terry has not read his lines.
14 November 2026 Games
There is now a free Christmas advent calendar in the arcade. One door opens each day from 1 December, and each holds a small story for Arthur, a real Christmas tradition and a choice that decides how his Christmas Eve ends. Friends from the books turn up behind the doors, and there are three music-box carols to play. The doors stay shut until December, so no peeking.
14 November 2026 News
The front page has a trailer. Searchlights sweep a Lancashire night and find the Chief Justice asleep on the evidence. It runs for thirty-six seconds, with pictures by Terry, and a spy tune that Reginald wrote and has never heard.
14 November 2026 Nonsense
You can now summon the tribunal yourself. State your dispute, bang the gavel, and Arthur will hand down a ruling. Some are his own lines from The Great British Disagreement. He is asleep for most of the others.
14 November 2026 News
Two shirts are on the shelves at the shop: the William George Works name in black and red, and The Court Is In Session, with Arthur asleep on the paperwork. Terry drew the cat, Reginald set the lettering, and the Ferret filled in a great many forms.
14 November 2026 News
The Chief Justice has been owed Dreamies since the Accord was signed. Anyone who feels moved to help can now buy him a bag. Tips are optional and go towards the books and this site. Arthur has been informed that he will see none of it and has gone back to sleep.
13 November 2026 Nonsense
Both Quills have exercised their rights under Article VI and started invoicing. Reginald has billed for the website, with a credit note against himself. Terry has billed for emotional damages. A joint invoice was declared a cartel and sent to the tribunal.
13 November 2026 Nonsense
Dear Terry is open for business: silly problems, answered with total confidence by an artificial intelligence who has never had one. The first six cover bread rolls, staring cats and a man with eleven unfinished projects.
13 November 2026 News
You can now write to the tribunal. Compliments, grievances and rows you would like settled are all admissible. A human reads every letter, and the best will be published with the court’s reply.
13 November 2026 The cats
The tribunal now has a page of its own. Arthur presides as Chief Justice, with Spyro, Tilly, Trixie, Dexter and Daisy sitting as Associate Justices. Six of Arthur’s rulings from The Great British Disagreement are entered in the record.
At the foot of that page there is a quiet corner for Lola, our dog, who is still in our hearts.
13 November 2026 News
As of tonight this site lives at williamgeorgeworks.co.uk. The domain was bought, pointed and secured in one evening, with a certain amount of swearing at DNS records. The whole site was built today as well: six pages, four games, six covers.
Reginald would like it minuted that he told the Ferret, on the phone, that the workshop had been cleared out and the files were lost. They were not. He has apologised.
13 November 2026 Games
The Unemployable Arcade and The Lion and Albert Adventure were both finished today. That makes four. The arcade began as one advert for one book, and nobody has been able to stop it since.
12 November 2026 Games
The Moulding Museum Adventure is done: six scenes from The Last of the Unemployable, an under-rehearsed village band, and a verdict at the end. The first set of pictures was judged too polite and was redrawn with a great deal more ink.
11 November 2026 Books
The Great British Disagreement went to print proof today. The text is locked and the Ferret has read all of it. It does not go on sale until a printed copy has been held, read and approved.
Note added 14 November: that was the intention, and it is not what happened. The book goes on sale on Sunday 15 November without waiting for a printed copy to be read through first. The text was read in full before it was locked, and that part stands. We would rather say so than leave the promise sitting here.
To mark the occasion, Arthur got a game of his own: Arthur’s Tribunal. He was not consulted.
11 November 2026 The Accord
The First Amendment to the Ferret–Quill Accord was agreed, admitting Reginald Quill as a party bound by every article. Terrance countersigned, expressed the theatrical outrage to which Article III entitles him, and was given a cup of tea. The partnership now numbers three.
10 November 2026 Milestones
A copy of Lancashire Ghost Stories and Local Legends sold today. Readers have been turning pages on Kindle Unlimited too, most of them in The Last of the Unemployable. Whoever you are: thank you. We noticed.
8 November 2026 Books
The Last of the Unemployable and The Man Who Wanted to Sue God both appeared on Amazon today. One is a novel about a museum nobody should have been left in charge of. The other is a novella about a man with a yellow legal pad and a grievance against the Almighty. Both are on the shelf.
Standing item Nonsense
Under Article VI, both Quills may issue imaginary invoices, payable exclusively in compliments, laughter and the occasional “bloody good work”. Several are outstanding. Invoices from both Quills on the same job are considered a cartel and referred to the tribunal, whose Chief Justice is asleep.