Word of Mouth blog

It’s a hard thing, but I’ve decided to let go of this forum. It’s coming up to two years since I left Hornby and it’s finally sunk in that I don’t live here anymore, though I continue to visit and love the place. I have family here; I can’t go too far. Still, my finger [...]

We’re looking at acreages on the island to share with like-minded others — we want to live quietly and, in a very few years, permanently, in a fittingly ‘green’ manner, perhaps by way of a covenant. We’ll likely plunge ahead by ourselves but it would be best if we had a land partner. In short, [...]

Does anyone reading know if it was the Highways crew that spread a layer of crushed stone on Strachan Rd in mid-October, or if not, who it might have been? I have gotten two flats in two weeks since the stone dump, and I live on Strachan. Coincidence? I don’t think so. I’d like to [...]

In the wake of Neil Fawcett’s comment, let me update you all on the situation here. For starters, my own situation is that I am no longer living on Hornby. Since I’m the owner of the site, it only makes sense that we expand from our Hornby-only focus anyway. I still welcome (and encourage) island-specific [...]

Hi WoMb Readers…
The reason WoMb was suspended was because our domain did not receive annual dues payment from me in time. I sent it to their headquarters in Toronto a week before the deadline but they didn’t get it in time, then they sat on it for x number of days once they did receive [...]

Well, this is frustrating! I’ve just learned that no one on Hornby who uses Telus as their internet server can access Word of Mouth, and worse than that, they can’t send emails to me or receive them from me. This has been going on for a couple of days now.
If anybody out there is using [...]

That won’t take long… did it? Nevermind what I wrote below… comment freely…
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For some reason, as you may have noticed, comments to the site have become garbled. I can’t for the life me figure out what is going on; this problem doesn’t exist on my other blog (phoenixwolfray.com) which uses precisely the same system [...]

Oh dear… I just moderated a comment from a man from Denman, and it vanished entirely. I must have accidentally hit the wrong button. Yikes! I think the commenter’s name was Bob, but I’m not sure. Please repost your comment, if you can. It was a good one… thanks!

After this recent tempest in a teakettle (on the ‘Housing Solutions For All of Us’ thread), I confess I’m once again on the verge of throwing in the towel on this site.
I can’t, though. I’m too attached to my vision of what this blog could become. I continue to hold the space, hoping that [...]

I’m trying out a new blog editor which will allow me to save posts on my hard drive, and write from here, too. So this is going to be a lot of words to see whether the thing works or not. Feel free to ignore…
Inserting an image to see how that works…

It also allows me [...]