Donations – a big THANK YOU!

Many, many thanks to all you generous people out there for your donations. There are just too many of you for me to write to thank you individually.

When I first mentioned donations, my hope was that there would be enough offers to meet the hosting costs for the next twelve months. The initial response to my request was such that I quickly had to revise my target to two years, which had the added benefit of being able to take advantage of the discount available on the hosting company’s biennial tariff.

However, this still became an unrealistic target as offers of donations continued to come in, at a far greater rate than I had originally anticipated. The end result is that, if/when the final contributions arrive, there will be enough in the kitty to pay for a third year’s hosting! My apologies to those who wanted to donate more but, as you can see, the £5 I set was certainly enough.

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Financial Times 14,181 by Falcon

Straightforward and well defined         Across 1 GRANDMASTER (top chess player) grand (magnificent) master (teacher) 7 ORB (round object) hidden in [convey]OR B[elt] 9 METRO (subway) T (time) in (ROME)* … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,171 – Dante

Monday Prize Crossword/Nov 26 Mostly straightforward, but as always with a Dante puzzle there were these final bits that held me up.  I think the end-product is right, but I need some help … Read more >>

Hosting Company Move – Update

First of all, many thanks to all those who have offered to donate towards the hosting costs etc. I will let you know about the preferred method of payment in a day or two. It will probably be a case of my sending you a request via PayPal (you will not need a PayPal account in order to send your donation).

I have now heard that the transfer of the site to the new hosting company will start at around 9pm on Sunday (9th Dec.) so could I please ask that you stop adding any comments from 8pm onwards. The site will be closed just before the transfer commences but unfortunately I cannot give you a time when it will reopen since this depends on the performance of the current hosting company’s server which has been notoriously poor at times recently.

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