I think I need to clarify a bit. The server never actually went down, it was on-line all the time. The problem was that the route through the internet advertised to get to it was corrupted by the bug in the hosting copany's routers in their Data Center. When you were able to contact the server would...

The server hosting the BCSS website became uncontactable at approximately 10pm yesterday (16th April) and came back on line at around 3pm today. This affected all sites and services on the server. It was apparently due to a bug in the routing software/firmware at the data center in USA where the ser...

The 2014 BCSS Calandar can now be ordered on-line at http://www.bcss.org.uk/books.php (bottom of page)

We did have a stand in the main Hall for the first few years we had a stand at ELK. (This predated the use of the marquee). We found it quite difficult to operate the stand from there due to the overcrowding and noise. Publication and membership sales need more conversations than plant sales and oft...

Suzanne and I are putting on a publicity and sales stand for the BCSS at ELK as usual. Unfortunately this year we won't be accompanied by Terry and Jennifer Smale as Jennifer has suffered a fall, broken a bone in her pelvic region and has very restricted mobility at present. We are therefore going t...

Bradleya 31 is immanently due for publication.

I have posted a list of contents and the cover image to the BCSS web shop.

You can take advantage of the pre-publication price if you order by Friday 16th August. After that date the price reverts to the higher normqal publications price.

The problem yesterday affected all sites on our server and also many servers of several website hosting companies.

For those interested an explanation of what happened is here:

Information on yesterday's outages

Quite a few of you will know that Suzanne Mace has been waiting for a heart valve operation. This operation was carried our sucessfully this morning at the Brighton hospital cardiac unit and is 'doing well'. I visited her at their intensive care cardiac unit this evening and although sleepy from the...

Just a note for the reason for the move; the new server has twice the disk capacity and four times the processor power of the old one so it should be faster and eliminate the rather slow periods which have been occuring when the weekly backups are done. All Branch and Zone sites are already on the n...

I now have copies of this new BCSS publication.

Pre publication orders will be dispatched as soon as we can.

Note all overseas orders will now go via the mailing house we use, Royal Mail having priced themselves out of the competition.

Tony Mace