UFOs, nuclear weapons -- and apologies

24 August 2011

The site has been down, owing to server overload. Some of that is the traffic generated since the four pieces I posted yesterday, but most of it has nothing to do with this site but with another dealing with UFOs and nuclear weapons.

My webmaster suggests that as a way of increasing traffic, and I guess it would be.

In the meantime, knowing the content my visitors -- from 50 countries, 33% from the U.S., 21% from Canada, and all you others from across the planet -- and I are interested in, he is looking into an alternative server.

There have also been issues for those of you registering on my site and wishing to comment on the posts. More to follow on that.

In the meantime, you can still, if you wish, comment on Facebook, on LinkedIn, and on Twitter @lindaleith.

I apologize for the disruption and thank you for your patience.

Linda Leith

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The carousel towards the latter end of the Brighton Pier, just before the roller coaster, is grotesquely beautiful, and enthrals the children and older bystanders for that reason. So vividly painted, the horses eerily distorted as they circle and bob, transfixed on a silvery pole to which half-terrified and half-delighted kids hang on and ride. Like all such carousels, this one unapologetically violates principles of aesthetic restraint, nightmarishly stunning as it spins to blaring music above the water.