I had a déjà vu moment yesterday. I received an e-mail from a reader saying my website was off line. This time it wasn’t anything to do with me – I don’t ‘fiddle’ when I’m at work.

I checked a couple of other Tripod sites and they were working – which meant that it was just mine. Oh Gods, I’d been excommunicated again. I couldn’t even log into my account – it kept telling me that I no longer existed. That came as a bit of a shock – I had to pinch myself to be sure I was still here.

I wouldn’t say that Tripod is the easiest of sites to find the customer service helpline or e-mail, but I will say they are damn quick in getting back to you. OK, so it was an automated reply telling me they’d received my email and it had now been passed onto an engineer who would be looking into the problem as soon as possible. I’m glad I didn’t have to actually speak to anyone – they may have been embarrassed if they actually looked at my website.

I thought I’d be off line for at least the next couple of days, but no, I was up and running the same afternoon. So hats off to Tripod – Geocities could learn a thing or two from them.

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For the last couple of weeks Himself has been accusing youngest son of rifling through his sock drawer and leaving half of the contents over the floor. Son has categorically denied this, he got quite huffy about it in fact. Why doesn’t anyone listen to what he’s saying?

We found out who the real culprit was last night. It’s the cat. She opens the drawer with her paws and climbs inside, dispersing socks as she goes. She then gets comfy and goes to sleep.

I don’t think we’d have found out if Himself hadn’t shoved the socks back in and tried to shut the drawer. Unfortunately the cat got in the way and wasn’t best pleased at being squashed.