I've been out at the Gnome Stronghold, cutting down a maple tree that I grew myself, and fletching up another level and a half. It takes a while for the tree to respawn, so I nipped over to kill some terrorbirds. I need the special bone that they'll eventually drop for the second part of the Rag and Bone man quest.

To get the scene, you have to picture what I'm wearing. I'm clad in a frog princess dress, very floaty, white chiffon look, with pale blue highlights in the expanse of skirt. I added ice gloves when I was doing the Clock Tower quest and forgot to take them off again. I was only reminded when a player turned to me in the bank to give me a present - pale blue boots, which he thought might match my gloves and dress. They do. I look very glamorous, especially since I added a games necklace more for aesthetics than use. Add to this the rune axe and a rune satchel. This is what I've chosen to wear to kill terrorbirds.

It's a fascinating sight. Each time a terrorbird attacks, I hit it with my handbag, then follow through with a whack with my axe. I'm amazed that the lovely dress isn't covered in blood yet. I look like a character lifted from 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' or, more precisely, 'Carrie', planted in a scene from a Disney film.

29 dead terrorbirds (and one mounted terrorbird, by accident) later and I still haven't got the required bone. Reckon my tree has respawned yet?