Mark Dalton

So another year and another Christmas Hangover. This year we all spent Christmas day at Katrina & Rob’s which was nice as we got to see Eleanor and William open there Christmas Presents.

Mum & Dad went down Christmas Eve and I drove down Christmas morning just in time for breakfast. William and Eleanor had been up since 06:00 and had already opened all there presents from Santa, but there were still plenty of presents under the Christmas tree.

William was very excited and really didn’t know what to play with first. Katrina cooked a wonderful Christmas dinner with all the trimmings and we all ate far to much as usual.

After dinner Rob played Santa and handed out the Presents from around the tree and in traditional fashion we took it in turns to open them. William was exhausted by about 17:30 and headed off to bed. We eventually finished up about 19:00.

After supper we sat around talking and drinking until about midnight. William slept right through until 08:00 Boxing day morning and was almost the last one up.

Boxing day was an opportunity for William and Eleanor to open the remaining presents. William was still very tired, but so were the rest of us. We all enjoyed the traditional Boxing day dinner before heading home. Check out the rest of the photo’s here.

Okay the problems with Permalinks and WordPress 2.7 continue to annoy me. I have scoured the WordPress forums and it would seem that I am not the only person suffering, but there doesn’t appear to be a solution, well that I can find, at present.

Playing around I have found that the default permalinks setting allows everything to function correctly, it just doesn’t look very pretty. It also means that the gallery doesn’t work as the plugin requires anything but the default permalinks setting to function. So for now I have disabled the Photo Gallery. If you are looking for my photo’s you can still find them over at Flickr.

So yesterday was Dad’s Birthday and Mum put on a lovely meal to celebrate. We were joined by Clive and Sue, Mum and Dad’s friends and neighbors and we sat up until gone midnight chatting and generally putting the world to rights.

More pictures are available as usual in the Photo Gallery!

Okay it would seem that after upgrading to WordPress 2.7 there are a few problems with Permalinks and the .htaccess file. Now I haven’t got to the bottom of it yet, but the net result is categories and tag filtering does not work and neither does the “About” page.

Once the Christmas Season is over I will take a deeper look into the problem, better still by then WordPress may have found the problem and posted a fix.