Instead of writing a meaningful post, this evening I have been fiddling with some of the code that runs this site.
Top tips, because apparently I'm rusty and forget:
Don't indent the closing line of PHP heredoc. No matter how ugly it makes your code look. Because if you leave any whitespace in there the whole thing breaks.
CSS may cascade, but 'rules for classes' take priority over 'rules for just the element'
Anyway, I'd love to be able to brag about the tiny changes I've made to my comment form, but unfortunately when I put the code live the whole website broke. White screen of nothingness - and, even more annoyingly, nothing at all in error logs! It's all working perfectly on my local copy, so that's a bit mysterious.
Luckily I keep everything in a git repository, so have just undone the last pull and stashed all the changes for later inspection. And then delve into the hideous world of php error reporting settings to figure out why logging isn't happening properly, sigh.
On a theme of "things I didn't get round to posting at the time and now it's several months later", here's my favourite photo from our birthday visit to ss Great Britain.
Taken from underneath (obviously!) in the dry dock. The 'ceiling' is covered in a layer of water, so from ground level you can pretend the boat is floating, and from below you can pretend you're underwater. It's a nice effect.
If you're a small nervous child what you can also do at this point is start screaming about how you don't want to go into the water because you might drown - until a parent picks you up and carries you down the stairs. Presumably it didn't take her too long to realise she was still breathing air...!
Today was lovely and sunny. We went for a little wander around Pittville Park in Cheltenham.
Most of my previous visits to Pittville have been for parkrun, but there's more to the park than three laps of the lake!
For example, the aviary. Slightly confusingly named as it houses animals as well as birds, but there we go.
My favourites were the chipmunks because they're tiny and cute and pretty. They're also really fast, which makes it difficult to take their photo - especially when you've got your camera shoved up against the bars.
This one was chilling out quite happily though.
The rabbits and guinea pigs were mostly asleep, or hiding away in the shade. Bird-wise, there were peacocks, some fancy looking chickens, doves, and a load of little finchy things. I'm not a bird expert (in case that wasn't obvious).
Bit more obvious I was shooting through small gaps in the bars of the aviary here, but I quite like the effect!
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