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Good news on the Thornborough Henges situation. The application by Tarmac to quarry the site has been rejected which is extremely good news. Tarmac do intend to appeal the decision, so it is still important to maintain the campaign to protect this outstandingly important and beautiful area. However, for now, they have to keep their grubby mits off. For more information about the ruling, go here and here.

If you would like to know more about Thornborough and the campaign to save it, you can find a link in the Go Visit section on the right.

The new look I was hoping to unveil yesterday, didn’t work out as well as I had hoped, poo! So, it’s back to the old template for a while longer. Luckily, I have found a solution, but it is going to mean some twiddling to get it all right. As you may know not all browsers interpret style sheets in the same way, so a page can look very different in IE, compared to Firefox for example. This is extremely annoying, and I do think that the sooner the manufacturers of browsers develop a standard way of doing things the better. I mean, when you buy a car you don’t have to get an extra set of wheels to make sure you can drive on all roads. However, when you are designing web pages, you have to use all sorts of workarounds to make sure pages have a uniform appearance. Which brings me to the point I am (rather laboriously) trying to make. There are workarounds you can use. One of the most simple is to use more than one style sheet, then add a little bit of javascript to the <.head><./head>of your page which will point a given browser in the direction of the correct style sheet. You can read more about this here. It is still a faff, to have to edit more than one style sheet, but at least you know your site looks the way you want it to in all, or at least most browsers.

Oh, and here is my result for my latest venture into the world of online quizzes:

You have Sirens blood: The beauty of a siren comes
in many forms. But yours is by far the most
pure. You are mysterious, clever, kind,
compassionate, beautiful, amazing, wonderful
and so much more. You are the kind of person
that makes this world a better place just by
waking up every morning. Dont let the sins of
others bring you down, you are a beautiful
person both inside and without.

What ancient bloodline do you have?
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I’ve been tinkering with the blog style again. Unfortunately, it’s not quite the way I wanted, I designed a great 3 column site using divs rather then tables, but it just wouldn’t work as a blog. I’ll keep it because it looks great as a standard site, and it will be useful for any extra pages I add to this blog. Anyhow, I had to go back to tables to get it work, and that was rather odd, because it’s at least two years since I last used tables. It was a bit like stepping back in time, so this is now kind of a retro blog.

I’ve just finished reading The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry. It came out in 1995, but relying on second hand book shops as I do (I live in the land that literature forgot) I only found a copy recently. It took me a while to get into it, I wasn’t keen on the main character at first, but he grew on me as the story unfolded. After that, it was quite an enjoyable read, with some interesting, if exceedingly posh characters . . . to be expected considering the author, a man so posh QE2 probably feels common in his company. Be warned, it does contain some strong language, and a few scenes of a sexual nature, including one that could be construed as offensive. ( I had to pop that in, I would hate to be accused of corrupting anyones’ morals. LOL ) Overall, it’s an entertaining novel, very funny, with well defined characters and a sub plot which questions whether we should always believe what we see.

Hello Dear Reader, I hope you are having a pleasant Saturday. It’s nice to see you have ventured back after the rants in my last two posts. No ranting today, I promise Instead I have a request.

If you have a spare minute, could you pop along to icons.org.uk and vote for Thornborough Henges, an incredibly beautiful and archeologically important site in North Yorkshire which currently faces the threat of being turned into a gravel quarry. You can read more about Thornbrough here, but basically the site is extremely significant, ranking along with Stonehenge in terms of importance. The plan to quarry Thornborough has fortunately met with set backs recently, but the site is not completely out of danger yet.

BTW, I’ve been at those online quizzes again. This time I discovered which fairytale princess I was. I must say, I was surprised to find I was princess material at all LOL

Princess Belle, from Beauty and the Beast.

She quickly fetched some water and poured it over him without stopping. Then he jumped up and was instantly transformed into a handsome prince. They got married, and the musicians began to play again, and the summer side of the garden appeared in its splendor, and the black cloth was all ripped down, and together they lived happily ever after.

Which FAIRY TALE PRINCESS are you?
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