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Hooray, it's spring!

2 September 2026

Yesterday was the first of September and if you go by the meteorological calendar, it marked the end of winter and the start of spring.

According to weather commentators, spring has come early this year, with the usual strong westerly winds already kicking in right across the country.

Temperatures are also higher than normal for this time of year.

I'm not complaining.

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Forums are Down

Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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