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Thanks for your efforts Dan. That's MUCH better! A re-read is underway!!

I haven't actually looked properly yet as the whole tumblr is still quite new to me. Surprisingly easy to use once you find the right template However it can get stressy - like yesterday's redesign the code nightmares I'll have a nose and let you know. Top of my head however Colin Wilkinson's Streets of Liverpool non-tumblr website is good, but it is for the dark side of the Mersey. Still ok

Great! I think it does look better now too

Have you changed it again? (tmblr?) All I see is big white spaces!

Enjoyed that. Thank you.

No probs Shambo. Will always try and add new stuff to it.

You sure CV? It should be fine on most browsers

Yep, just tried it again, see screenshot below. I am on IE7 here at work, will try at home later (I have IE9 at home)... the black & whilte header at the top of the page is OK (it just scrolled off the screen, in the screenshot, is all!)

Should be getting this. Try at home and see how it goes:)

When I mouse-over a topic in the topic list on the left side, the topic appears - in green...!
I will try it at home tonight and let you know... do you know anyone else with IE7?

Never mind, I just tried connecting this same PC via a Wi-Fi connection, instead of through my work LAN - and it displays just fine!

For some unknown reason, only when I connect via my office corporate LAN, the black background of the main page area, remains white. So the white text is invisible. The header section's black background is just fine. No idea at all why that is happening - probably some kind of firewall issue - rather odd, but it does look like it's 'my problem' - not yours. Sorry for the red-herring!

Phew!I hope you think it's still worth looking at now after these technical issues

Yes, indeed! Love this stuff, please keep it coming!!

Great pictures Dan. I was home last month first time for 42 years and all I can say is the place is a dump. I know things change but not always for the better. Where has Charing Cross gone? Now nothing more than a few sets of traffic lights. Oxton rd has lost all it character and I wont even mention Borough Rd from Singleton Avenue down. From Singleton Ave down it was the most depressing site I have ever seen. But Birkenhead Park and Arrowe Park looked magnificent. Even my wife said the best part of the trip was the walk through Birkenhead Park. Oh well.
Also we spent a night in Liverpool on the way North and I wanted to take my wife on the ferry, however the ferry did not start until 10am so we had to go to Secombe instead what a dissapointment, sob sob.
Sorry if I have offended anybody with comments above.

You're right. Wirral has been criminally mishandled in recent decades and our tourist trade leaves a hell of alot to be desired. The town centre died years ago and apart from Wirral Waters to look foward to in a few 'decades' time, our current appeal is almost non-existant. Liverpool continues to thrive and us, only a stones throw away, sit and wallow in her shadow. The whole of Wirral needs motivation to become great again.

Your words are so true Dan

I am fortuate enough to travel the world through work - some interesting places to say the least.

3rd world countries so they say - much more appeal than Birkenhead and 9/10 friendlier - I joke not.

It is probably the same for all us "oldies" on this site - when we think how Birkenhead was and how Birkenhead people behaved / conducted themselves it is VERY depressing.

I can quite understand how our friend must have felt having been away for 42 years - he must have thought he had come to the wrong planet.