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Thanks for bearing with me. As you can see the website has been ‘reincarnated’ - hope you like the new look.

I have been having doubts about continuing with this project, but decided (after the major ‘meltdown’ of the old one) to continue with it - especially since Jim Webster has come onboard. I figure I at least owe it to him to carry on with it for a while!

In the meantime I’ll add some new features in the hope of getting just a little more in the way of contribution from the community. One feature designed to make the process simpler for everybody is the new Rapid Writer page. If you have a thought for an article, just go there and write one! No need to register as a contributor - but eventually you might like to do so as well - just fill in the form and write your article.

I’ll check it over for errors and publish it within a day or two. If you would really like to include a couple of photos or images with it, just put a note on the bottom of the article and I’ll get back to you and tell you how to send them to me as an attachment.

Another new idea is the Quick Classifieds. On the right side of every page you will see the Latest Classifieds area. Just click on the ‘enter your ad’ link, fill it in and press submit. Couldn’t be easier! Note that visitors can read the entire ad by ‘mousing over’ them and as for articles, all ads are checked prior to publishing (mainly to avoid all the viagra spam…) but they will go live as quickly as I can get to it.

Thanks for your continuing support.


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