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Now that the photo functionality is up and running I thought it was about time I added some of our photos. For now I've added a selection from 2012, 2013 and 2014 to join the recent additions to 2015. 

Whilst I'm talking about updates, I've also been working on the member side of the website as I want to re-enable the signup page so that you can comment on photos and blogs in addition to subscribing to updates. I've also added another photo to the banner slideshow of a Canada Goose taken at Roundhay Park in Leeds.

Hopefully there should be some progress over the next week or so. Until then enjoy the new photos.

The sun is out again this weekend, we've spent the day in the garden, tring to rejuvinate the lawn and putting in a few new plants including some clematis and a rather tasteful new grass. We decided to have a little walk down to the park late in the afternoon after we saw someone has posted a picture of some duckings on facebook.

Low and behold, there were a nice little huddle of them and I managed to get a few pictures - hope you're all enjoying the sunshine!

Yesterday turned out quite nice in the end weather wise so we headed out to the canal boat cavalcade in little Venice. It was a good day out with lots of narrow boats covered in bunting and lots of stalls selling food and other bits. There was even punch and judy followed by a teddy bear picnic on the grass at Rembrants Garden. After a good potter about we decided to walk a little further into town, eventually reaching Hyde Park. We made full use of the sunshine and had a wander around the park, stopping for a drink by the Sepentine at the Lido Cafe. We ended up finishing the day out at Cafe Rouge by Victoria station before heading back home.

In the evening, I made a couple of small changes to the website to make it a little more user friendly, updating the gallery page to now load all photo albums with links to collections on the right. I also added a few lines of code to speed up loading of images by adding cache headers. It took no time at all to add and significantly speeds up page loads when returning to a page already viewed. For those interested all I added was:

header('Pragma: public');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=86400');
header('Expires: '. gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T', time() + 86400));
header('Content-Type: image/png');

Simples! Now time to get back on with the marking . .