Pingu

lovely sunny day today so teh dogs decide to spend it on the couch...

nights are drawing in...

apologies that update took so long the backup phase took nearly 9 hours. everything is now at latest patch version though and there are some new things to tryout. click stuff as you feel fit :)

apologies for slow reply - been a manic few weeks. i guess we will soon find out who is still going and who isnt by the bounce back/unsubscribe emails... yeah its a bit of a shame but FB killed off forums so let me turn that thanks arround and say thankyou for still being here

well nearly the end of another year. I have just renewed teh licence for here for another 12 months and will try to do some actual promotion. would be nice to have the rescues back. it is possible to set up private groups so that rescue specific discussion can happen which may help some of the smaller groups. Facebook etc mean its never going to be as big as it once was but if it helps then i am happy to keep things going

well had a dead PC for a bit there which was fun - not first chance i had to look at it was this morning and yay .. now not dead computer

if you haven't already done this the do so. I chucked one in with zero expectation of getting anything and got a lovely letter yesterday offering me a few grand... no need to use a claimns company i used https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2017/03/ppi-reclaim-deadline-martins-5-must-knows/ took about 5 minutes and job jobbed.

Trying to work out what i feel about Ricky Jervais. Love his attitude towards people but his characters always seem to be the same. Having said this have just watched the first episode of Afterlife and absolutely loved it.

stupid work. getting in the way of me giving Mylo his 3 pm friday cuddle.

Just watched Episode 1 of afterlife with Ricky Gervais. its a bit of a sad setting but really enjoyed it.

am off to crufts today seems so long ago when we did the organised trip and i was printing "refuge ID Badges" a lot has changed since then but i am looking forward to being surrounded by all those rotties today #happyplace

and a happy st davids day to you all too

sadly fishy mcfishface didnt make it. shame as for a fish he had a lot of character

a shubumpkin - a rescue fish that came "free with tank". he was about 2 cm when he arrived and has grown a bit since then (hes on his third tank cos he outgrew the others) currently he is about 15 cm in length and hopefully has stopped growing. So far in the past week we have spent enough to buy about 40 of them but fishy is OUR fishy and that's not how it works in this house. So water additives, testing kits and additional filters to try to get his water OK again. We seem to have the levels under control now but its going to take some time for him to recover.

My posting about my dark ages re-enactment stuff got me wondering what peoples hobbies were outside of the animal field. i have a few. i play a few online games: World Of Warships elite dangerous battlefield but my main hobby outside of the animal sphere is the reenactment stuff. I got into it via the local history - where we live has a very rich viking past., wil post some pics later on. what sort of stuff do you guys do that's not animal related?

in other news, for those who don't know i do dark ages experimental archeology (i dress up as a viking and hit people with an axe). our season started yesterday with an educational gig at liverpool university... which gives me an idea for a fred

so currently we have a fish in intensive care... the nitrate levels in his tank shot up without us noticing and were at one point"too high to measure"... so we are currently doing small regular water changes.. have nitrate reducing packs and are just hoping that we caught it before too much damage was done. the levels are dropping (currently at about 1.0) so hopefully fishy will be OK

is there such a thing as "too much bacon"?

SO then.. the expanse .. season 3... get in.

trip down memory lane..

watching the expanse again. picking up on loads of things i missed on previous watches

i love dandelion and burdock. never really got to grips with eating liver, kidney or heart. creme eggs were nice until they changed teh chocolate a couple of years ago

well that seems to have gone painlessly...

so there is a newer version of the board software out which addresses some performance and security issues. before i move to this though there are some server tweaks that need to happen (php versions for anyone interested). these may/will cause some weirdness and possibly even some brokenness... i apologise if the version update happens at an inconvenient time for you but i don't have any control over when it happens

feb so far - meh... tbh i am looking forward to spring so i can sit out in the garden with the dogs and not have to look like teh michelin man