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Sunday, November 01, 2020

Where did that go?

 It was a lazy start to the day and whilst the Gorse Fox fancied a walk, the weather threatened mayhem and he just couldn't be bothered. He retired to the study.

The Silver Vixen also had a quiet morning and spent some of the afternoon in pottering in the garden. The weather threats had not, at that point, come to anything. She had a good tidy up before winter sets in.

In the study, the Gorse Fox wanted to check something on his website. He was a little discombobulated when he found that whilst the address was recognised, nothing was displayed. Where had the data gone? He got on to the hosting service. Their chat system responded quickly and sent the Gorse Fox to a Chrome/Firefox browser (he had been using Safari). This made no difference. Then, as if by magic the chap had a brainwave. Pop! the website burst into life. Apparently they had not enabled the new level of PHP. The Gorse Fox doesn't know how long the site has been hiding.

The Gorse Fox checked the answer to his initial queries. All done. Then, he thought he'd make a few changes. This meant logging in to the administrative account for the Content Management System. This threw up a 404 (Page not found). Not a good sign. He got back onto the chat service and spent about 30 minutes working through various suggestions... then the operative said "Can you hang on for 3 or 4 minutes, I need to go and check something". The Gorse Fox can only assume that, at this point he was abducted by aliens. The chat window remained open, but he never returned. This is a query to chase down on another day. (With lockdown looming, the Gorse Fox suspects he will have time).

We bought a nice joint of beef for Sunday dinner this week. The Gorse Fox read the instructions, but decided he wanted to try something different. He has the seared joint cooking slowly in the oven at 130C on a bed of root vegetables, beef stock, and mulled wine. Goodness knows what it will taste like, but it's nice to experiment.

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