Welcome to another, somewhat snowy, addition of Newsgoose! This Month’s Issue includes free pull out poster and a lollipop!

Ok so I was lying about the lollipop thing. But I do have the all important “Renaming the Ranks!” competition announcement! I got together those officers not involved and I gave them all the entries without letting them know who submitted what. Until they read this even they don’t know who has won! Thank you to Castarsugar, Kivi, Aradia and Dradex; all of whom submitted interesting and awesome ideas. But unfortunately we could not choose them all! A damn shame because they rocked.

With his ingenious use of well known real life and fantasy ranks, from Empress, to Serf, right down to Peon; the winner, I am proud to announce is Menhit. And because he’s an officer all he gets is bragging rights and a site winner badge! (See rank changes in guild or here to find out what has become what). The 1k gold I have heroically grinded will find its way to the bank funds. See we’re all winners really!

And talking of winners; this month’s Noob of the Month award goes to Grimmy; not only did he forget to Gem for his own raid, he also forgot to enchant AND eat his buff food. Gratz to Storm and Art however for disengaging hilarities and for mending yourself with mend pet. Smooth guys, smooth.

Camping; I know you are all holding your breath for a date, and next year's offical Mongoose Camping Date is *drum rolls down a hill*  Friday 15th July - Sunday 17th July. Click here for more camping shinanigans from who is going to where to buy a tent.

And in other news, I point you to the blog of ATD; his recent column on Alliance Pride brought a happy tear to my alliance eyes, and I will look at our blue banner in a new light. I highly recommend this column as a guild read. Click here to read the article. Well done Alaunus!

Come Cata there will of course be guild achievements. I am the most excited about this! New interfaces, shiny things for getting the achieves. Watch this space for mine and Grover’s achievement pushes and strategies. We have to get guild shinies. I want. I want! I WANT!

Of course I can’t end without talking about the recent guild parties. It was the night before the world  broke, the night before Chuck Norris got angry at all the Chuck Norris jokes and broke the world in half, (thanks for that one Arai), we ventured to Mongoose Party Island off of Auberdine and danced the night away. It started with drinking dalaran red, progressed to some awesome screenies and devolved into skinny dipping. We then went for a naked mongoose run around the world; you saw the statue about to be crushed under a tidal wave; we went there. We did a naked mongoose run through Stormwind and wound up destroying the elemental portal (well one or two ele’s. we were naked after all) in the now destroyed Park. Thank you to everyone for coming, we had a great time and got some absolutely awesome screenies, such as the one above. How Arai got up there I will never know!

One last thing before I go however; you may have noticed that this month’s edition of Newsgoose is small, and unadorned with my usual pictures. Also that last week’s ICC on Sunday was cancelled. I have had a big, although expected, shock and real life chow has taken over my time. Real = Bigger than WoW life. So I’ve had to take a bit of a break which is why I haven’t been on in nearly a week.

But never fear! I will be popping in and out and keeping a watchful eye upon you all, and I will be returning full time to my duties as soon as possible, hopefully by the end of next week. Until then pay attention to your sister and brothers and eat your greens or Mummy will be sad.