[Fleur Pavlidis]

You should have had JTh's husband with you. He'd have put your snake in a plastic box!

[JTh]

John and Fleur, a small correction: he catches snakes only if they are inside our house, for instance in our bedroom.

[John J]

Not a morning walk but an afternoon walk with a set purpose. To get photographic evidence to support my wife when she takes part in the village environmental committee's meeting this evening.
The Kouris was a seasonal river that ran through Kolossi until it was dammed in the 1980s. The first 2 photos are from the 1960s when it could be quite powerful in spate. In fact in the winter of 1967 it washed away the Queen's Bridge in the British Sovereign Base Area and the Royal Engineers had to construct a Bailey bridge until the river went down in the summer and it could be repaired. However, following the building of the dam the water ceased to flow and the remaining photos show how the river bed looks today.

[JTh]

Not much of an improvement,at least not from an aesthetic point of veiew.

[Charithea]

Hi Jorun. It does look sad that the 'mighty' Kouris of my childhood,  which really looked amazing after the spring snow melt, is now a dumping ground for 'uncaring' individuals. The riverbed has been cleaned many times but unfortunately the dumping has not stopped. The last 5 years my concerns have been unheeded but now with the new village council leader, a much younger man, there is hope for change.  I was invited by the committee to speak at last evening's gathering regarding setting up groups for the improvement of the village. I have been informed that my impassioned speech has gathered the most volunteers. I now have to organize them and I shall post our 'news' as they come along.

[JTh]

Great, Charitea, I hope you succeed.

[John J]

Test

[David Dickinson]

I see that a "test" message has been sent. There does seem to be a problem here because I wrote a message of support to Charithea which isn't showing up.

Hope everything went well, Charithea. Great work you are doing!

[John J]

I sent the test message as I was unable to access the forum for a few days and then when it returned I couldn't post photos, and still cannot post photos.

[Hilary]

hereistay seems to have got the thing to work.
I wonder if it is the time of day or the size of the photos.

[Alisdair]

As some of you will have noticed the site went offline altogether over the weekend. Our administrator had to put a lot of work into getting it back in action, but succeeded. However, as John has found there is a problem with photos. I've been experimenting myself, and it seems that Hilary is right - the problem is to do with size. I managed to post any photo successfully so long as the file was under 130kb in size (including multiple photos, so long as each individually was under that size), but failed with any photo over that size.
I have alerted the administrator to this, but in the meantime if you do want to post photos please try to keep them to the very smallest file size you can manage, and definitely under 130kb. If you try but get an error message, try again deleting the first attempt and using a smaller file size.
I'm very sorry about the difficulties, and hope we can sort them out as soon as possible.

[Joanna Savage]

Testing with Hermodactylus  tuberosus photo, flowering this morning.

[Alisdair]

The administrator says the site should now be accepting photos properly again. I've tested it with photos right up to the usual 250kb limit and it worked perfectly for me, so I hope it does for you.

[John J]

Here goes with the photos I tried several times to post. They were taken on a cold, clear, sharp morning. The Loropetalum chinense is in full bloom and the Arbutus andrachne is showing why it is in the Ericaceae family with its heather-like flowers.

[Alisdair]

Thanks for persevering, John; they're lovely pictures!