Apologies for the lack updates recently — my Internet connection was out of action for an entire month. Heads will roll…

I also don’t know why the calendar has started putting Tuesday events under Sunday! The events that I entered for April yesterday were actually May’s events — which explains why dates that should have been Tuesday were showing as Sunday!

We’ve got two pub beer festivals this weekend:

The Lifeboat in Selsey is having a festival with about 10 beers, as well as a barbecue. Flash Company, a three piece band playing mainly Irish, Scottish and yee-haw music with a kick, will be playing on the Saturday night.  The festival runs Saturday and Sunday.

The Wilkes Head in Eastergate (nearest station: Barnham) is planning 21 beers — including Rudgate Ruby Mild, the current Champion Beer of Britain — plus Broadoak cider and perry. Free entry between midday and 6pm on Friday and Saturday, with tickets for the evening sessions and Sunday afternoon at £5 each, or £10 for a weekend ticket. The paid sessions also have live music: the Sussex Halves on Friday evening, the Rife on Saturday evening and traditional jazz and country on Sunday afternoon.

The Maypole in Yapton looks to be having a festival in mid-October — more details when we get them…

This Wordpress upgrade hasn’t gone as smoothly as I’ve hoped; it’s done some damage to the theme. Repairs are underway…

…you’re seeing the new version of the site. Yay.

Once this is starting to show up for people, I’ll upload the new branch diaries…

We’ll be changing hosting provider in the next week, including moving our domain registration. When the registration is moved to point at the new site, it may take 24–48 hours for the change to propagate throughout the Internet; until the changes reach you, you may end up seeing the old version of the site.

If something goes wrong, the site may be unavailable for a period, or may be flaky for a while once the new version’s up. Hopefully nothing will go wrong, but we are talking about computers here…

A minor change to the privacy / legal page, also reflected on the contact page.

Due to a certain organisation (which had, perhaps, better remain nameless for now) accessing CAMRA websites the length and breadth of the land, copying any email addresses they can find, and adding these email addresses to a mailing list without the permission of the recipients, I’ve changed these pages to reflect the situation:

These pages are maintained by volunteers, using their own resources and mostly at their own expense. Any email addresses published go to private systems, not CAMRA systems, even if the address ends with @westernsussexcamra.org.uk.

By accessing these pages, you agree that email addresses found on this site are private, non-business email addresses (unless explicitly noted as otherwise) and you agree that you will not send unsolicited advertising, sign them up to mailing lists, or otherwise treat these addresses as anything other than Personal Data as defined in the Data Protection Act, and thus requiring specific opt-in for business mailings.!

Our hosting company is moving their servers from London to Manchester overnight on Thursday (much handier for Bar Fringe, but further from the Rake — swings & roundabouts, I guess :)

This means this site will be offline from about 10:30pm on Thursday until some time on Friday; hopefully we should be back by 9am, but there’s always a chance it may take a bit longer than that…

You might have noticed the January socials are marked as “subject to change in the event of foul weather”. What we’ll probably do if snow etc interfere is reorder the socials, where possible. (We plan for this every Jan/Feb and hardly ever need to do it, so no need to panic!)

Sorry, folks — the new diary entries aren’t showing in the calendar. I’ll have to look into this later.

Also not quite sure why the site randomly defaults back to the default template. This, apparently, is progress. (Edit: fixed the templates, anyway — by renaming our custom one as “default”!)

…and the diary entries are now working again.

Woohoo! The upgrade went (fractionally) smoother than expected, even if all the categories did get eaten and had to be rebuilt by hand!

You might have noticed the spiffy new theme, based on Psalm 8 by Joni. The header picture was from our last Bus Cruise, and taken outside the Royal Oak at Friday Street. It was less orange in real life, though…

Most of the site should be working as before — the subscribe buttons at the bottom right have gone, but I don’t think anybody ever actually used them :)

It’s the Great British Beer Festival next week — I’ll be up there, and hopefully will have time to post the Champion Beer of Britain winners on Tuesday.