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Aw he's a sweetie l. Puff out that chest indeed

Cool costume

Cool dude!

so much better than a blog about that vv IT stuff

He looks so like Alfie in this photo.

Awwwww

*smile*

Oops. Done it again. Meant

he's beautiful

Great photo!

Wow he's rocking the Green!

handsome lad.... (and i think he knows it!)

Fab!

Aww, lovely pic. G

Happy chappy

Yay. Well done Fetch Junior

Lincoln Green. That's the colour isn't it. Awesome

Nice to see you are using the carpeggio ratio there.

I agree with your wife

i disagree with your wife... that was hellish boring.

That's interezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
*have we got a sleep smiley by the way ?*

It was more 'eh? What the fuck is he talking about?' than boring...:)

That's alright, that's less than half.

Am I the only one that finds that very interesting? Does it include the mobile version? I guess it must do as

Don't know why my message was truncated... to finish - it must do as

truncated again? squish that bug!

What Fleecy said.

no idea if that was interesting as it went straight over my head

Now I'm confused but I hope your width is growing or maybe shrinking !!? Lord only knows

So the 52% of us luddites are still winning

Worst blog ever.

TL;DR.

I wish CW had managed to finish his message, because I'm wondering about the mobile version too.

So does the fact that I have to zoom Fetch to 125% to make up for my poor eyesight feature in these stats?

I thought it must include mobile as

Less than 400px must be mobile, right?

It's the less than sign that truncated my messages!

I'm assuming you've changed something? It seems to be slow scrolling up and down today on IE and the page number boxes have gone all funky!

It was only a matter of time.... I'm reliably told *everyone* is designing mobile and touch first now. So now I know!

Not mobile *first* jude. Tsk *Everything* first

Google analytics is helpful. Adobe analytics arguably more so (I don't know how costs compare, cos I work in BigCo and we tend not to be bothered by costs so much!) G

Ah yes, silly old me

I find a simple tap and my mobile device zooms in automatically. Sometimes I miss and get taken to another place though. Definite benefit too having no adverts!

Lol at skin thickening medicines.

"I hate it, bring back the old version, I don't like the flavour of Coke anymore since they changed the recipe etc"

Change, I don't like change

This is all helping

If your counting is worse, mine is worserer. Re: skin thickening, I'll hold your hand through the worst of it.

I've given up counting on so many occasions, and just followed you

It's taken me years to work out how to "Fetch" on my iPhone. I'm too old to learn anything else.

Change is wrong. Change is bad. Stop change. Ooooh, shiny.

It all sounds very complicated. Give us a week and we'll forget it ever looked any different.

Grab yourself a little lap counter. About 8 quid from Amazon

I'm about to flog a lovely Garmin Fenix 3, that does all the swim counting and metrics you'll ever need...

Bring back inkwells, that's what I say

*wistfully* I remember when it was all just fields around here...

I feel rotten now, my tinker man comment was in jest (a clumsy reference to the tinker man having such success at Leicester), you do a magnificent job of continuous improvement

Dio - please don't feel rotten - none of any of this was a dig at you either. Making a change and then people not liking changes is something that I am totally used to. You lot are the best testing department there is, and Fetch only works because of this. Look at the forum notifications thing. I made a change that worked for me and the way I use the site, but it was only when I put it live that I got the information about how the rest of you use stuff, so I was able to poke it around some more until I got a better solution. For the good of the site, keep the feedback coming

Thanks, I did worry that it hadn't come over as I intended

Just off to try this x

Always makes me chuckle...

😂😂😂

Seeing them at half way I wanted to join in, seeing them at mile 22 I didn't

I hate VMLM but always want to do it after doing Fetchpoint

Been there, done it, got the t-shirt. You couldn't pay me to run London again :-D

I would love to do it again - wearing earplugs and with no plans for " a time"

I voted yes, but it does depend on how you ask the question. I answered as if it were 9 years ago, when watching the FLM, it made me want to do a marathon. But then I did one, and another one, or two, and VLM and some ultras. And now, no, I don't want to do it again, thank you! Well done all you Fetchpointers. One of the best parts of my VLM experience! G

I have also been there, done that and got the (massively oversized and quite horrible) Tshirt. I do not want to do it again, but I spent years, before I 'became' a runner, watching it on the TV and longing to have a go at that some day. My love affair with the event ended in disillusion and disenchantment, as love affairs so often do. Having done several other, very different, marathons before and since running London, I discovered that I much prefer a very different sort of event, without the charity circus and the noisy, crowded course. But if I hadn't watched 'the' marathon on the TV for all those years, perhaps I would never have started running at all - let alone run a marathon - so my answer is 'no', but a qualified no, if that's allowed.
Fetchpoint is still awesome, though

London is an event I prefer to watch on the TV. As a participant it is everything I despise. That's why I enter the ballot every bloody year and get rejected every bloody year!

It's one of those things I do fancy maybe having a bash at, but not that one, just too many people for me.

Thank you for creating this site, and the shouts today. Both much appreciated.

I wonder what aliens would make of pickled onion flavoured crisps?

Doh... I was looking for the "like" button....:)

No - because how would we hide all the Tri stuff ? or VLM for those that hide that etc..

Could you keep the race category please?

Got to keep them to hide all that London marathon shit.

RH - that's a really good point. But I think so long as we keep the bit where the thread is categorised when it's created, and keep the bit that allows you to filter out the categories you don't want, then it should work the same, more or less.

MrsJ - can you explain how you use it as a category? It'd be helpful

+1 Rosehip & lammo

Agree with Rosehip - I currently hide at least three categories most of the time. But I guess if you can make it work as you say than that's ok.

I never use the categories. I would like to go straight to the forum in one click rather than forum, then forum or polls. I never want polls if I am going to the forum. Thanks for listening

The only time I use categories is when I'm looking for, say, the bike thread and trying to remember if it's in "Tri" or "Chat" or whatever - but I'll adapt to whatever happens

I just used "VLM" to find all the Fetchpoint threads. Until you do a "better" (:-O) search then we still need the filter thing. Ooooh, get me, sooo demanding! Lots of love, G

dont think ive ever really used that option...might have to try it! (but im sure i wouldnt miss it)

Agree Rosehip. Needed for filtering.

Never used the categories. Always go there via All. Frankly I'm surprised there is a VLM category since as evidenced by the third comment people seem to hate it, or for that matter why should VLM be singled out for special attention? I'd go for categories for Swim Bike Run. How about a hide thread option so I can filter out the ones I am not interested in (for example counting to 1 million)?

As mentioned above, as long as I can still filter out stuff I'm not interested in

Agree with Anj and them^^up^^there. As long as I can still filter out all the London Marathon shizzle I'll be happy.

I don't use the categories - I mostly go straight to my watch list. Occasionally I scan the whole list but don't filter... ta

will sometime use categories to find a forum as it will filter out the rest, but then tend to favourite it. Particularly if I'm looking for forums for upcoming races. Guess I could always use search for this.

I sometimes use those tabs - "site" most often to see if there has been a debate along these lines (as they tend to be short-lived threads that I might otherwise miss).

well, who'd of know that those were there or useful. Now you've pointed them out I think I'll actually use 'em!

I like to use it if I am looking for threads specifically about certain races, having said that if the thread is not appropriately categorised then chances are I miss what I may be looking for anyway so maybe it's not so useful after all.

I use them to get to threads I want to post on or read, but aren't showing on front page of All or on my Watch List - is quicker than trying to remember an exact word from thread title then typing that into search.

You should probably add a Deathmatch category so those who don't want to see the posts or polls can hide them.

Rosehip hit nail on head. No VLM, no Tri

I forget the categories are there.

I block out 95% of the forum using the categories. They must stay

I should also say I use them when I want to open out the forum as well. Having been here a while there is no doubt I use them.

I'm one of 5% who use the tabs so I'd say keep them!

I never knew I could filter or hide any categories anyway

Sounds like your smoking monkeys have a busy few weeks ahead Good luck , may your testing/rollout go smoothly !!!

Sounds like good stuff

You use both hands to wipe your backside? I use toilet paper! (c) Ye olde schoolboys booke of jokes and gags. I certainly never use my mobile - no absorbency see.

Having read about the 1-2-3 hosting debacle (wiping whole websites from their servers, including Ross County FC's), I hope you have squillions of backups

sounds good to me.I rarely use the mobile site as it doesn't do it for me, so this sounds like progress

I doff my cap to you young man.

Can I be the first to say 'I don't like it' and 'Can we go back to the old screens?'? I know I haven't seen them yet, but as we all know, all change is bad and to be resisted.

*Burns new fangled loom*
*Smashes Spinning Jenny*

FWIW I use a Windows phone phablet thingy and annoys me when sites like the BBC force me to use something designed for mobiles.

Good decision, sir.

I've never liked your mobile site. Too many drop-downs and just not pleasing to my eye.
Hope this works out for us.

I like the mobile site on my phone - as it's clearer and quicker - but with the planned changes I'm sure I'd switch back. We are launching a responsive website here at the Halle next month

Generally on mobile sites I try to zoom to fit the text to my eyesight. Those sites that don't allow it I just don't use on my mobile. I access Fetch a lot on the go so I'm quite happy with it as it is:-)

I don't like mobile sites in general although fetch is one of the better ones, there are some shockingly shit ones out there! All sounds good, I love the way you actually ask us when you change stuff ( even though some people always moan :))

nice one Fetch. I thought the work you did to give us a mobile site was superb, to make the whole site truly responsive will be the icing on the cake

Hurrah. Proper responsive design web sites (and not mobile versions or apps that do nothing except serve up web pages!) are the future. imho

I think the bounce rate on mobiles might be higher because - if you're anything like as fat-thumbed as me - you'll use a mobile to quickly look something up but for typing in the forum and blogs, you'll need a laptop.

Disturbingly this video shows as already 'watched' on YouTube so I must have already done this. But what the heck:

now i need to see aaaalll the previous tshirts!!

Glad you enjoyed it - I'm glad they need so many of us to marshal - I hate Sand lane with a vengeance and would never chose to "race" up it - you did ace

I think the seconds might be the way race results are done - you go through with 45 on the clock, which is rounded up to 46. See it on the TV quite a lot with I think it was the Great North Run record being equalled in the women's race last year. It's an officiating thing, so what I do is just accept it as that's how it is

Either way nice work on the PB; my usual celebration for those is for a family outing to KFC, so glad it isn't just me with the junk food!

Well run, Sir

Congrats on another PB

Great pacing (and hanging on!) for a PeeB. Well done. G

I'm wondering if they timed us on that mat way out in front of the finish. I'll ask the ref if I see him later! Good blog.

fantastic race. Well done us. the marshals were awesome (thanks Rosehip and friends). Think my take on the race may be slightly different to yours! may be its time i wrote a blog!

Excellent bloggage and running

I followed you into the hall at 9am and thought "I think that's Fetch" then lost you!! WJ fetchies rather took over it seems. A number of us had similar issues around the timing and it does seem to revolve around the second mat just after the start. Either way, we'll run and nice to see you, from afar!!

Well done on hanging on for that PB. I loved the Tshirt, and the marshals were fab. I checked back to see when I had run this previously, and it was years ago! I was so glad the donkeys were still there - I saw two miniature ones as well, but you were probably moving too fast to spot them

Well done on the PB - and glad you enjoyed the race. I was sorry not to be able to direct you to a parking space, and cheer on Katie's Ladies as they passed the pub, but family duties prevailed this year. See you next year...

Congrats on the PB.

Nice one, well done.

"nearly starting at 9.00 a.m.", or "starting at nearly 9.00 a.m.?"
Congratulations on the PB,

Fab t-shirt...

So Sweet!! Can I have the girly pink one please?

I would like the top row second from left mainly blue one... But I want to send it to Night Owl who may not see this til too late , and I feel needs a bit of brightening and encouraging at the minute.

I'd love the Ulster Rugby red and white one please.

Yes please - one for a boy rather than one for a girl if possible - teen-mulbs is rather fond of wols

Cool! Please may I have the black/red one on the bottom row, far left?

Me please. I'll take any

Yes please. Bottom row, second from right please.

I would like any owl from either row. I love owls.

Ooooo yes please anyone they're all fab

Thank you everybody. *pulls down 'sold out' sign*

What do we do now,Fetch?

Rats, just got on to the computer. I reckon you could flog some more you know. They are very cute

None left, sorry - although I might be able to persuade my mam to knit more. She's probably moved on to another project now though.

if she does unicorns next I'll get one for my little sister

Sorry I missed this, OH loves owls. So if there's another tranche...

Great stuff!! It looks like a penguin with explosive flatulence

Brilliant I'm going to show this blog to Mr who relishes fond memory of bottle rockets from his days as a Scout leader. I know a 10 yr old lad who will find this great fun.

What brilliant fun

Fantastic! We have Brian's DIY shop near us - it's just like Zak's shop and Brian and his staff know where everything is. If we don't know where to buy something from, Brian's is the place to go. I wonder if they are related?

Awesome science and photos.

and now add a raspberry pi (or zero) with camera to take pictures! Tim Peake would be proud of you!

Lots of fun. Thomas says to come round and try Coke and mentos as it is more messy. Messy is important when you are 8.

There is a shop like that in Pembrokeshire, at Newgale. If we ever go that way on holiday we have to visit the shop. Even if we don't need anything when we go in, we always find something that we do need while we're in there. Goldings in town is a bit too organised to have the same feel.
I found it amusing that you described a Chinese sun hat. I'm sure most people call it a cone?

Flying bottle rockets ain't like dusting crops boy. Sounds awesome. How'd you get the photos? Video ? And take a frame? G

That is brilliant. Will definitely have to try it out at school with my KS3 groups. They'll love it.

Great photos. We made a bottle rocket once. Its still on the roof of the neighbours house as far as I know :-/ It flew once, kids had no interest in making another lol

Ah, bodge tape, just like real rocket engineers use!! :-):-)

That is just brilliant. Love it! :D

awesome, plumbers PTFE tape should help hold the ferrule in (I use it for lagging glass joints in t'lab to hold

Please will you adopt me?

Great pics

This is better than the current European space program. Fact.

Can't believe you said sod that about the chart

So much fun! I want to build one, now!
I need my grandson to grow up by about 7 years...

Brilliant...

so cool!