After the mad rush by some to get their routes in before the first deadline, things have quietened down a bit.

If your route's complete, please don't sit on it waiting for it to grow legs … send it in and we'll have it vetted as soon as we can so you can get back to putting dubbin on your stove and sewing up the holes in your Platypus.

Note that the next – and final – deadline for routes (other than for those coming off the Standby List) is February 15. Please let me know NOW if you're struggling to meet that deadline.

State of play, January 27, 2014.

Routes received: 158 (73%)
Routes to be assigned to vetters: 0
Bumped for pre-vet revision: 1
Being vetted: 16
Returned for post-vet revision: 18
"Good to go": 123 (57%)

By my maths we are still awaiting 58 routes, which means an average rate of three a day between now and Feb 15. Which would be nice… please, if possible, don't leave it to the last minute. The sooner all the routes are vetted, the sooner the vetters can be released from their pens back into the wild.

Thank you!