Announcements

Server Migration – Sunday 5th March

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Update: The site has now moved to its new home. Unfortunately the downtime was not minimal (~1½ hours), my apologies for that. However, the new IP appears to have propagated quickly so I hope all is well. If you encounter any problems during the next few day please let me know either via email (admin{at}fifteensquared{dot}net) or by adding a comment below.

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Site Response Times & Display Errors

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Update: I am now confident that the response time issue will be resolved before next Monday (the extended page loading times are most prevalent at the beginning of the week) because the hosting company has now accepted that other accounts on the shared server are affecting its performance.

A number of people have mentioned that, since Tuesday morning, they been unable to access the site or have needed to refresh a page before it displays correctly (i.e. the home page has all the latest post summaries and individual posts have all the comments). Some server modifications were made on Monday evening to try to rectify, or at least reduce, the response time issue but the hosting company has informed me that these should not have caused the access/display problems. If you continue to have access or display problems please let me know either via email (admin{at}fifteensquared{dot}net) or by adding a comment below. I would also be interested in receiving details of any problems experienced during the last couple of days.

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Inside No 9 – 28/2/17

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I have received the following from Alan Conner (the blue italics are my additions):

“A quick heads-up to say that there’s a programme on BBC Two tomorrow (28/2/17 at 10pm) which I suspect will be of interest to all people 225. It’s a one-off episode of Inside No 9 (a 30 minute dark comedy): the lead character is a cryptic setter (Professor Squires) who is visited by a woman called Nina, and the whole thing is based around a puzzle. (Disclosure: I feature briefly and needlessly in the credits as “crossword consultant” or similar.)” 

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East Midlands S & B in Nottingham – Saturday 13th May

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Update 2/5/17:

Thank you to all those who have indicated that you will be coming to the Nottingham S & B on 13th of this month.

We have been informed that we will need to vacate the area in the Pitcher and Piano allocated to us by 5.30pm. Several people have suggested that they might move on to other hostelries in the evening anyway and we can suggest some venues for those who are not familiar with the city.

For those who have expressed interest in the walking tour, please meet Bert (Chris) at the Costa Coffee booth in the main concourse of Nottingham train station at around 11am. The walk is likely to take about an hour. If you arrive earlier and have some time to kill, there is an outdoor photographic exhibition in Station Street just outside the concourse – photographs of Britain from the Air. If you are not arriving by train, and are perhaps using one of the Park and Tram services from the M1 Junction 24 or 26, the trams all stop at Nottingham Station, with a short walk to the main concourse.

Joyce (Lynette) will be meeting and greeting at the Pitcher and Piano from 11.30.

If anyone needs more information on finding the venue, please add a comment and we will try to help!

Looking forward to meeting everyone.

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An announcement from Bertandjoyce (Chris and Lynette)

Peter and Eileen have agreed to hand over this year’s East Midlands S & B to us. The event will be held on Saturday 13th May at the Pitcher and Piano on High Pavement on the edge of the Lacemarket area, approx 10 minutes walk (or one tram stop) from Nottingham station. There are Park and Ride facilities using either the tram system or buses for those travelling by car.

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It’s 2017!

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Well, we have come to the start of another year (where did the last one go, it only seems like a few months since I was last writing one of these posts!). I … Read more >>

Christmas quiz

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This annual quiz is created by Araucaria’s family, and it’s fun and challenging. We dedicate our donation to the memory of Araucaria, and suggest that you might like to do the same. http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8085da8850c0e2152b2339c4c&id=a31f7892be&e=df02ee0cb7 … Read more >>

3D Calendar Crosswords (update)

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Another message from Puck:

The 2017 3D Crossword Calendar is now available, and would make an ideal Christmas present for either yourself (go on, put it on that list!) or for someone else you know that is into crosswords.

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Another Anniversary!

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Another year has passed and again we have reached the anniversary of the first blog being posted on Fifteensquared – this time it’s the 10th. So, what has been achieved during the last … Read more >>

3D Calendar Crosswords

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A message from Puck:

The 3D Calendar crossword puzzle for this month (September 2016) is now available, and is another first in the crossword world – a 3D puzzle with an added 4D element. However mind-boggling that might sound, it involves a simple enough idea and solvers will find the puzzle is no trickier than most of the other 3D puzzles on offer.

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Move to a new server

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Update: The move to a new server was started at 2:10pm and completed by 2:25pm. Two comments were lost during the move – well, I did ask that no comments be posted between … Read more >>

S&B York, October 28/29 2016

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The ‘Accommodation’ post can be found here.

A message from John Henderson:

Thank you for the excellent response to my “Show of Hands” posting. It’s time now to start putting together numbers for both parts of the event…

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