eBay Haiku Competition: THE WINNER

All the votes are in, all the bribes have been counted and the delegates wives are admiring their new fur coats and porsches. Yes, it's finally time to announce the winner of the 2012 Olympic venue.

Coincidentally, it's also time to announce the winner of the eBay Haiku Competition.

Thanks to everyone who entered - there were some great entries. It was hard to pick a winner and it was a close run thing.

Three honourable mentions. First to Krill54 who clearly knew that any James Bond haiku had to be a contender:

Trapped on a rocket
with women of loose virtue?
Clearly Bond. James Bond.

And second to Circals, who was one of the most lyrical of the entrants. His 'highly commended' haiku:

This book by Dennis
Is full of thrills and menace
Completely Wheatley.

And third to ridetheoverdraft, with this great entry in his feedback:

Thank you for the cash,
I spent it on loose women,
drugs and alcohol

But for sheer enthusiasm, volume of entries and entering into the spirit of the thing, there can only be one winner. majikthijs.

He entered dozens of haiku, in both his auctions and his feedback and the quality was consistently excellent. His winning entry:

you sent me a disc,
ingeniously packed,
like the spring blossom

Just perfect.

Congratulations to all. An iPod shuffle is on it's way to Majik as soon as he emails me an address to send it to.

Finally, it's time to announce that Rummaging is going to take an indefinite break. Other projects are taking up too much time, so the blogging has been neglected. Rather than walk around all the time with a nagging suspicion that I need to write a new entry, I'm going to call time on it for a while and come back, if at all, with a new approach and a new enthusiasm.

In the meantime, if you want other stuff to read then check out:
For ebay related stuff: Bayraider
For funny/weird stuff: Boing Boing
For environmental stuff: Small Environmentalist

It's been lovely. See you again soon.