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Terrific gifts

A few weeks ago, our friend Smoochie of Basil’s blog celebrated his seventh birthday with an extraordinary party, and a world-wide giveaway.

We were lucky ! We received a big package from the United Kingdom. Claire was moreover surprised by her weight.

Inside, everything was packed in a light blue tissue paper : there was an pretty card, various toys, small valerian pillows, treats, a plushie, the book of Basil’s adventures, a big book of mandalas to colour with two packages of special pencils (metallic and neon), two pins, an elegant pencil case, and an adorable bracelet.

Isn’t that emoji cat plushie adorable with her heart-shaped eyes ?

We were spoiled ! What terrific presents !

Thank you Basil, Fudge, Parsley, Amber, and Smoochie !

Thankful Tuesday

A huge thank you to Roman from Easy Giga and his team who worked all Monday long to get back our disappeared comments (more than 10 ‘ 000 !). Roman took time to have several exchanges of e-mails with Claire on Friday evening, and even yesterday (on Monday), to understand the nature of the problem, to reassure her, and to inform her of the progress of the technical team. Easy Giga keeps all our true for hosting our website.

What we learnt of this misadventure :

make regular backups of your blog (more than once a week)
indicate immediately any problem to a person competent to help you
even if you’re upset, remain factual and polite in your communication

What we have to learn to do :

how to use our backups
how to find or get back data

A huge thank you to you, dear readers, dear pals, for the 70 comments (if we counted well the notifications by e-mail, because some comments were lost all the same between Thursday and Friday) for Pixie’s Gotcha Day.
We didn’t reach our purpose of 100 comments, but we’ll make all the same a nice donation to the Haut-Léman shelter.

A huge thank you to Basil (Bionic Basil), Fudge, Parsley, Amber and Smoochie for the package we’ve just received from them : we’ll tell you more about it in a few days.

And a private individual thank you to Zorro on behalf of Claire for the living bird that he brought this morning at 6 am during her breakfast, and released in the kitchen…

Technical problem

Our webhost set up a tool which detects the updates of our plugins and forces them to be done. Indeed, some of their customers do not do the updates as one would need, what affects the security of websites and their servers.

During one of this, on Friday, a problem arose on our site : all the comments of April, 2016 to Friday disappeared from the site !

Claire was in tears. She contacted her webhost, and quickly received answers on behalf of the very big boss ! We are thus a little reassured. The technical team of our host will take care of the problem on Monday morning.

Fortunately, beyond that, our site works normally, and your comments left since Thursday are in our e-mail inbox, thanks to the notifications we receive, and on the blogpost since Friday : it thus changes nothing to my commentathon !