Ok, so the board is now working to a certain extent, I’m gonna need to pull some stuff off of a hard drive and upload it to the server before it’s all ship shape and Bristol fashion but the thing does work now. All the attachments are gone however (that’s whats on the HD) they will be back but not for a short while. The smilies too.. Sorry Boggy, you will have to wait a short while before you can start attempting to induce seizures on the readers again.
Basically the board needs about 7-8 hours of my time to be back into the functional state it was before I closed it down last year, so to all of you guys waiting to joyfully spam it again, it’s not long now, I aim to have it completed this week. I’m pretty good at time management these days too so that estimate won’t be far off lol 
From here on in however it will be unmoderated, I have decided to go zen on the whole politics side of running a message board. Spam will be removed and abusers will be messed around but aside from that, people will be encouraged to say whatever they want about whatever they want. I have always felt that the fire spinning scene needed a speakeasy and for a very short while it did indeed fill that role. Then, alas, the one simple rule (play nice) turned into a fkn millstone around the places neck and no one was allowed to say anything that anyone else didn’t like. Pah!!! No more.
Mkay then.. just a quick update as to how the board is coming along, for now tho, I’m going having some brekkie and taking the Bobo out for a walk to enjoy the beautiful sunshine that the UK is basking in right now.
I saw my first Bumblebee of the year yesterday. It’s spring!!