The deadline date for the next challenge

As the next deadline is New Year's Day and we all have more than enough to do over the festive season, how about bringing the date forward a month?  Strictly speaking we should all be working on them now to get round this busy period and, speaking for myself, I usually do everything at the last minute anyway - which translated means in the last two weeks.  So what do others think about pulling the date forward to 1st November - that gives us over 4 weeks? 

We need a consensus so please let us know what you think.

Also, I have added a link button to the top of the side bar (above the challenge photos)  for those of you who haven't set up the automatic link to the site everytime something is posted - this sends an email into your 'unread' box (in Outlook - not sure about Macs) to notify you of a new posting.  This way you are always bang up to date with what is going on.  The 'comments' button is to notify you if someone leaves a comment about a posting.

Not many of you add postings and I can't believe you all lead uninteresting boring lives.  It's lovely to read about things you are making, doing, buying, winning, achieving - whatever!  Maybe it's because so many of you see each other regularly and so don't need to post but for the rest of us thousands of miles away it's the only way of getting to know the other members and start to feel part of the group.  Thanks for all the postings!

Back to starting my Frenzy piece,

Hilary