Firstly a big welcome to our latest sponsor, Phil Ingles, who is our locally-based ‘Hire a Hubby‘. Thanks Phil, I appreciate the support and I hope the locals make good use of your skills in most areas of home handyman services.

Secondly, to encourage more comments on the articles I’ve removed the email and website boxes as it might have put some people off. They were always optional anyway but now you don’t even have to give them a second look - ’cause they ain’t there!

It really means a lot to the article writers to get some feedback on what they write so as well as the comments (if you can spare a few seconds to put something there it would be great), you can also now give an article a ‘thumbs up’ if you like it - just use the click if you like this article link and your vote will be recorded. EDIT July 2nd: Ok changed this to ‘How did this article make you feel?’ as the thumbs up thingie caused a problem. So if you don’t have time to dash off a quick comment - just let us know by clicking your mood!

The comments area under each article can really be thought of as a mini-discussion board where you can have your say about the particular topic. I would have thought that more comments would have been left on the ‘Ask Auntie Flo’ ones with some alternative ideas or tips.

Why am I saying all this? One word - interaction. This is what this site is intended to be about.

It’s not  meant to be just another website where you visit now and then, see what’s new and then leave, but a place dedicated to your community where you all can have your say, agree, disagree, get offended, or just be a wee bit involved in what’s happening in the place you live.