@barrywalsh
Active 4 years, 2 months ago-
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Seagreen replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Surprise 14 hours, 38 minutes agoOther, painting.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Surprise 22 hours, 25 minutes agoMade on my behalf by Jules to keep me honest: other, sculpture
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Athelstone started the topic Welcome. Please read this first in the forum
Surprise 1 day, 16 hours ago<u>Welcome and timetable</u>
Welcome to Surprise. This is a writing opportunity with a challenge and just the merest hint of competition. At the end there will be winning entries, chosen by all of you who take part. Most of all, everybody who takes part will have worked to produce a short story and hopefully risen to the challenge. If you stick…[Read more]
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Athelstone started the topic Choices in the forum
Surprise 1 day, 16 hours agoI am not going to explain what these choices mean – not now anyway. They will have a big influence on your story but I have every confidence that you will cope. You have all the skill and application necessary. I will explain when I reveal full details of the theme, but that won’t be until the group becomes private.
And please don’t take these…[Read more]
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Athelstone started the topic Voting in the forum
Surprise 1 day, 16 hours agoOn the face of it, what you have to do is quite simple. However, those of you have been through this before in previous challenges will know that in fact it is extraordinarily tough.
When the writing stage of the challenge closes on 28 February 2027 at 22:00 UK time, the voting stage begins. No doubt most of you will have read many of the entries…[Read more]
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Athelstone started the topic Q & A in the forum
Surprise 1 day, 16 hours agoIf you have a question or an answer, please post here.
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Athelstone started the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Surprise 1 day, 16 hours agoJust want to say something? Here you are.
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Athelstone posted an update 6 days, 22 hours ago
I had allowed the site maintenance to build up and ended up doing a pile of it yesterday. As usual I tested as much as I could, but if anybody spots a problem, please let me know.
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Incidentally, some Denizens may have seen news reports about a serious vulnerability in PHP, a variety of software used extensively in websites. The Den is currently running a patched version which protects us from this, so worry not.
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Thanks for all this, Ath.
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Our group seems to have gone a bit wonky. Clicking on a thread causes this to appear. Oh, bother! No topics were found here.
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I think it’s the latest BBPress update. I’ve rolled this back to the previous version. Can you tell me whether the problem has gone? I see there’s another update about to be released. It’s possibly a fix for the last one, but it hasn’t arrived with us yet.
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That’s fixed it. Thanks for dealing with so quickly, Ath.
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I think the update-in-waiting also fixes it, so I’ll push that out if somebody would be kind enough to check whether it does
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I’ve just posted to the SE Course Group 2016 and it seems to be OK.
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Thanks @libby and @katemachon. That was the problem I had on my Testing Group and also on the Test Den. I didn’t spot it at first as these seem to be the only two groups that had a problem. reading the update notes, it looks as though the previous version of BBPress (which gives us the group forums) attempted to improve security because in some…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic Vaulting Ambition: the BRM V16 in the forum Blogs 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Very good point about the fuel Richard. I’m sure the BRM would have relied on fuel evaporation for cooling too – looking at those early 50s cars, the radiators don’t seem as big as you might expect, and the Alfettas often seemed to have part of the intake blanked off.
I can see the initial appeal of the H16. The V8 was a darn good engine,…[Read more]
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Seagreen replied to the topic October 2026 Monthly Competition in the forum Monthly Competition 3 weeks, 1 day ago
337 words (inc. the title) and I managed ‘mood’ and ‘uniform’
FREEDOM JONES; AN INTRODUCTION
He remembered a time when he had been ordinary; when he had played with the other boys. A time when he ran, fought, laughed, and scraped knees with the other boys. When they had climbed trees and stolen fruit and snatched apple scones from the kitchen…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic October 2026 Monthly Competition in the forum Monthly Competition 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Easy peasy
Yesterday evening, me in mindless mood, scrolling between television programmes, and phone an Instagram a reel came up, featuring the ever- crumpled face of Mick Jagger. He answering some question about song writing, where he got his inspiration from.
His ‘Everywhere! -Sometimes I only have to look out the window –‘ spanne…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly Comp – September 2026 in the forum Monthly Competition 3 weeks, 6 days ago
I’m not surprise your story was picked @Libby, it was really top notch piece of writing.
Thanks for the theme, @Seagreen. It certainly made me think hard!
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