Belated Solstice Blessings to you, too, Alfred. We just got back from a holiday in Northumberland so just catching up.

We have received our own particular Solstice Blessing over this weekend as we look good to go to finally get our house sold, and our new home bought. It's been a bit of a wait since the end of January, but I worked on the basis it would all fall into place as and when, and that the delay could be down to our dream home not yet on the market.

Which seems to have been the case. We had a rather silly offer the weekend before we went away. On the Monday a property floated up in my alerts, newly arrived on the market. In just the place I wanted to be in, and not on a new build estate.

We were going to save ourselves an extra 3+ hours journey two ways on our way home viewing properties and we were able to get a viewing. We were there 1.5 hours, finding it ticking all our boxes. Our prospective buyers upped their price a little, but still a bit of a mickey-take.

However, this property is one we definitely want so we had another chat with the estate agents to the effect that if they add a little more we'll accept it. Fortunately, their 'ceiling' is our 'floor'.

So I've had a very pleasant Solstice weekend.

There was recently a problem that seems to be resolved by checking out the information in this post here - https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=6562#p6562

My CA2 was 'hanging' but this 'fix' did the job. Perhaps read the whole thread and it might be worth a try and then getting back here if you still have an issue?

Puts me in mind of this little key-fob I got back in October 2023 from a company in Ukraine - Memory Steel https://memorysteelua.shop/collections/ … r-products - who make good use of destroyed russian tanks.

I've just opened CA2 up again today, having been browsing on the Serif group page on Facebook, which reminded me to give it a go. 

Fingers crossed, it all seems to be working OK, even without disconnecting from the Internet first. Perhaps down to computer reboot, or possibly even the Microsoft update that came in when I shut down last night/opened this morning?

Thank you Ralph. This link proved very useful, and seeing these posts most timely. I used CA2 about a week ago, and then came to open it yesterday to sort and add prices to some photos of crafting supplies I want to move on, prior to moving house ourselves.

Sure enough, it just hung there, doing not a lot, but once I applied this fix, all was well again. Yay!

That was lovely to watch. The bees are enjoying the Lesser Celandine, so probably gathering pollen and possibly nectar as the colonies start to grow after the winter cluster. The Herbalist part of me always finds it amusing that one of the common names for the Lesser Celandine is Pilewort, because one of its actions is astringent and can be used in an ointment or infused oil for the relief of haemorrhoids.

The birdsong was delightful, too.

I hop on briefly most days to see if there is anything to which I can contribute. However, we are currently in the process of re-locating from the Midlands to my ancestral home turf of the north of England. House is on the market; we've found a lovely one we hope to get, and now just waiting for the ducks to line up in a row and receive an offer on our current house so we can go ahead.

As a result, we are having to de-clutter, and with both of us being squirrels there is a lot to go through. Keep? Sell/Donate? Tip visit(s)? All good fun!

Thank you, Alfred. I must admit it is one that has been on the go since 2015. I just go in each New Year's Eve and change the years and there it is, all ready to go.

Wishing everyone all the Blessings of the Season.