I have been applying a few licks of paint in the last few hours, and will be continuing to fiddle during the day - including things like https certificates.   

If you get the odd different / not secure / broken message, please leave it for 20 minutes before reporting as these things are likely to be known to me and in the process of fixing. I do not have the resources of a complete testing / loading environment to ensure seamless-at-all-times, but I do have several levels of backup which will act as a safety net if I manage to screw things up completely.

If problems persist for more than half an hour and are not otherwise notified in the pages you're getting / if you think I may not have noticed an "undocumented negative feature" (bug) I have introduced, please email me.

And - as ever but especially today - please keep a local copy of major content you write before you press post. Just in case.  Keep the copy for 12 hours, after which you can be pretty sure it will be in the various backups even if we go belly up.

 

From 2004 to about 2018, I wrote over 4,600 blog articele on "The Horse's Mouth" and they have been slowly gathering dust with occasional views on what is now our backroom/worker server.     I have now added a lick of paint so that they come up secure (https rather than http) and any shares on Facebook and Bluesky will correctly pick up images and titles.

Here's am example link: https://www.wellho.info/mouth/2457_Railway-Arithmetic.html. showing how a doubling of the very thin train service we had in those days would raise the number of day return opportunities form 1 to 8

Railway Arithmetic (written 2009-10-16)



Plenty of navigation in the archive already - much more to be added.   But be aware that lots of external links will be to pages no longer available, and many of the internal links have not yet had that lick of paint. In the future, indexes and searches can bring in these pages.