I knew it was coming, and we did get a full six months warning, but it's still a sad sad day.
"Scrabulous is disabled for US and Canadian users until further notice."
And right when I was in the middle of a game with Danny, with decent letters on the rack and everything! I mean it becomes all too obvious that this is just a ploy to stop me beating him for once. It's all that nefarious Birchall, I tell you.
On the other hand Jonny thoroughly trounced me this week and April was clearly squaring up to give me a good beating too, so maybe it's not all bad. Plus my phone has a Scrabble application on it that is actually licensed from Hasbro, so at least that's not going to disappear any time soon.
The question now is what on earth am I going to use Facebook for? I don't want to go back to being one of those annoying people whose vampire application keeps biting their friends. I know that there are two official Scrabble applications on Facebook, but one is for the US and Canada whilst the other is for the rest of the world. This clearly reflects the copyright situation, but it annoyingly means that I can't play a match against any of my friends in the UK anymore and I loved doing that. And anyway, the US one has technical issues and won't load.
Oh, and, to keep in the spirit of the thing, this photo was half-inched from the BBC news website a few weeks back, and shows the sixtieth anniversary celebrations for Scrabble in Trafalgar Square. I was sorry to have missed that particular event, I would have loved a photo of me next to a giant J tile. sigh.
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