Well, how can I best describe the misery I have endured since Friday the 13th last week? It all began when I was checking my email and found that I couldn't access it. Puzzled, I tried to get at it via the web interface and was greeted with 'no such account' messages. Thinking how odd the whole thing was, I then tried to access my website. Imagine the horror and surprise I felt on discovering a knitting portal in its place!
My immediate reaction was to think I had been hacked - which was unlikely, given the super duper security of my hosts. In the end it turned out that there had been an administrative and communications error and my domain had actually expired! Given that I have owned elegantsimplicity.com since 1999 I was not a happy boy.
Anyway, to stave off too much disaster, I purchased elegantsimplicity.co.uk as a back up / mirror (I had been after it for years and suddenly it was free!) and have spent the last 5 days getting the .com domain issue sorted out. After many phone calls and some money(!), all is well in Elegant Simplicity land. Procedures are now in place to stop this happening again and I am well relieved.
Anyway, sincere apologies for the downtime. Let's look forward now to the new CD. I promise you, it's fantastic!
Oh, by the way, if anyone out there has sent me an email between 11pm 12/07/2007 and 11am 18/07/2007, please re-send - as all emails went to the great email graveyard in the sky! Thanks!