All the mud of the fair

Every month, the rangers post a list of activities on the park notice boards. This morning I spotted the new one for May. Under the heading ‘Mud’ they explained that the circus coincided with the wettest April on record resulting in muddy devastation.

The notice went on to report that extensive work would be carried out to return it to something that resembles what it looked like before, rather than the huge slurry pit it resembles at present. In order to achieve this, a temporary fence is going to be erected around the area as they work on it.

This is great but the best news is that the circus is going to pay for it. Well done, Gerry Cottle! Given it wasn’t really anyone’s fault, as such, it’s a lovely thing to do. Mind you, it, more or less, ensures they can come back next year, I assume.

Meanwhile back at the house I had to perform some essential maintenance on the blog. I hate going through the updates so I put them off as long as possible however, today I discovered that if I didn’t upgrade to the latest version, I’d lose some functionality from plugins I have loaded.

So I went through the trauma of backing up, deleting and reloading. It all went smoothly enough and now the entire administrative area looks entirely different. Still, my plugins all work and I can rest calmly knowing it’s the latest and the greatest it can be.

Not the greatest is our burn bin. It’s sprung a leak. Or rather, it has developed a whopping great hole in the side, spilling ashes everywhere.

Looking into hell

Looks like we’ll need a new one soon. Which is what I’ve been thinking about the home page of our site. So I made a big change. I quite like it.