Weebly ate my blogs - here's a summary of FP&UTN*

*Fuzzy Photos and Unreliable Tasting Notes

Handy chronological index at the bottom of this blog ...

Shan said: "Why did you do that? If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Trouble was I'd already done it. "Done what," you may ask.

Weebly provides a facility whereby one can change dates on one's blogs. In my mind, it appeared to provide the perfect facility for archive retrieval in my dotage (or for anyone else who was perverse enough to check up on my dodgy past. Posthumously, maybe.)

I did a test on one of them and everything seemed kushti so I tried a few more.

Suddenly I could access them no longer ... not from Weebly's editor, anyway.

Those who still had the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) links could. Shan tested. Unfortunately, we send info back and forth on WhatsApp so frequently, it may have become a life's work digging them out. But it seems I sent all the missing URLs (and more besides) to my Cuz, Stuart. Thank Cuz

I may yet be able to retrieve the situation but this is a bit of a precaution. Besides, if there's anyone who wishes to start reading the early blogs chronologically (I should be so lucky!), there's an added benefit there, too. Otherwise one has to view them in Weebly's reverse order.

What have I learned from this, then? Listen to my wife.

Random blogs

• BLANKbottle
• Andrew Newby and Mpumalanga #2+ in memory of Andrew 
• ​Peter Green
• My dodgy wine and wine tasting CV
• Rory Lynsky - a serious reporter with a mischievous side 28.2.45 - 23.4.23
• Howard Frizelle 1951-2024: www.marksadventures.co.uk/fputn/howie-frizelle-1952-2024-a-personal-tribute

Fuzzy Photos and Unreliable Tasting Notes

1. Introduction
2. In the beginning
3. New horizons
4. Lichtaffen
5. Rites of passage 1
6. Rites of passage 2
7. Rites of passage 3
8. Rites of passage 4​
9. First road trip ever - 2,000 miles in a Vauxhall Viva
10. Much the same trip again - in a Ford Escort
11. Rites of passage 5
12. Mr Responsible
13. Wedding, wine and wings
14. London: leaving the mothership and Dad comes, too
15. Christmas with Mum's bestie and her judge
16. Weathering the worst of Winter, Hail Spring
17. Act 1 - Were we Wenwes? Are we now? 
18. Act 2 - Wenwe snippets
19. Act 3 - Unreliable news stories
20. 70s Europe in a Kombi
21. Act 4 - London last gasps
22. Going home to Durban via Vienna and Athens
23. Back in Durban and getting back into the maelstrom #1
24. Might as well be a petrol head #1
25. Might as well be a petrol head #2
26. ​1978 Oz Road Trip
27. A sad tail - the end of an era
28. The phony war #1
29. The phony war #2
30. The phony war #3
31. Paddling through resurfaced photo archives
32. Solange Raffray #1
33. Solange Raffray #2​
34. Ode to Campy, our retired motorhome after 30,000 km
35. Memories of Judy 1929 to 2022
36. LONG COVID and Mrs Malaprop
37. Discovering a letter from 1987 in 2023
38. Rory Lynsky - a serious reporter with a mischievous side 28.2.45 - 23.4.23
39. A journey in art by Shelley-ann
40. ​Eclectic memoirs of my Grandpa www.marksadventures.co.uk/fputn/fputn-eclectic-memories-of-my-grandpa
41. Howard Frizelle 1952-2024: https://www.marksadventures.co.uk/fputn/howie-frizelle-1952-2024-a-personal-tribute