'Tis the Well-Dressing Season

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Silver Tabby

Yesterday at 10:42:02 AM
Be sure to look after your wells!

"One year in the Presbyterians times during the civil wars, they neglected the annual  dressing of the salt-well in Driotwich - and the spring became dry, to the great loss of the town.  So thereafter they revived their annual custom (notwithstanding the power of the parliament) and ever since, volens nolens the Minister there ( and also the soldiers) they did and will Dress it, and the salt water returned again and still continues."

c1688

(volens nolens = Latin = willing/unwilling)

klondike

#1
Yesterday at 11:02:33 AM
Sound advice. 

When Scrumpy gets that round tuit perhaps she'll lend it out and we can all attend to any neglected wells we may have,

Diasi

#2
Yesterday at 11:59:14 AM
Crikey, this post has made me miss my home area which I rarely think about.

https://visitpeakdistrict.com/events/barlow-well-dressing
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Silver Tabby

#3
Yesterday at 12:48:45 PM
That looks lovely, Diasi.  Thank you.

JBR

#4
Yesterday at 07:38:02 PM Last Edit: Yesterday at 10:57:27 PM by JBR
Quote from: Silver Tabby on Yesterday at 10:42:02 AMBe sure to look after your wells!

"One year in the Presbyterians times during the civil wars, they neglected the annual  dressing of the salt-well in Driotwich - and the spring became dry, to the great loss of the town.  So thereafter they revived their annual custom (notwithstanding the power of the parliament) and ever since, volens nolens the Minister there ( and also the soldiers) they did and will Dress it, and the salt water returned again and still continues."

c1688

(volens nolens = Latin = willing/unwilling)

A bit like my old school motto: Possumus Volumus = we can and we will
(er, not a posh school, just a local grammar school)!

This site's being rather slow to load today.  Anyone else?
A missionary from Yorkshire to the primitive people of Lancashire

klondike

#5
Today at 09:28:44 AM Last Edit: Today at 10:06:18 AM by klondike
Quote from: JBR on Yesterday at 07:38:02 PMThis site's being rather slow to load today.  Anyone else?
I checked the stats. It started a couple of days back. I've changed nothing recently apart from the database backup method but that gets done overnight. Higher "guest" traffic (spammers and hackers) but nothing obviously wrong. I have taken the time honoured first step in fixing anything computer related and rebooted the server.

Checked the access log. Looks like the culprit is the Amazon bot
https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
It says "Amazonbot respects standard robots.txt rules." so I have told it to naff off in the robots.txt file. Will see if that stops it - it depends when it next checks.

It's ludicrous. I grabbed 12 seconds worth of the log and just about every request is the damned Amazonbot. It is giving the forum quite a hanmering and the server power is pretty low so I'm more surprised it is still working than I am it has slowed. Each line is a request - so a page read. 2 of the 32 in the maybe 12 seconds were not the Amazonbot

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Scrumpy

#6
Today at 09:38:32 AM
Quote from: JBR on Yesterday at 07:38:02 PMThis site's being rather slow to load today.  Anyone else?
yes.. very much so... The last few days I have had problems logging in..
 
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