You may have noticed a severe lack of updates lately. Sorry. I know how you check daily for my ramblings and the emptiness of anything must’ve left you severely depressed, especially since you’ve probably had nothing better to do but sit at your PC since no-one in the UK can leave the house due to the six inches of snow!

I can’t relate. We’re in the middle of a ‘heatwave’ in Australia. Thankfully it’s not 42 degrees plus like it is in Melbourne and Adelaide. Here, it’s a lovely 30-35 every day. Which is great if you’re at the beach but shocking if you’re in an air conditioner-less work premesis. Which I am. Bugger.

Anyway, the point of this blog is not to tell you about the weather – as fun as that is because of the amount of whining that people from back home have been doing whenever I ring to check how everyone is – it is to tell you that it’s time for change here at Joys & Sorrows.

The lack of time due to working full time and sorting out a place to live, transport (and all my shipping just arrived from England a couple of days ago – lots and lots of boxes!) and the lack of motivation to update the place, not to mention the hassle of sorting out software updates, forum disputes and one or two other things has left me feeling like I’m probably not the best man for the job any longer.

J & S is a great site and a good idea. I want someone to be able to develop both the idea of a Blues opinion / news blog and take it on from where I’ve tailed off from. As you can see from the archive it was once a busy, thriving site but it’s recently fallen into a state of Main Stand. I don’t want that for it since I’ve worked hard on it over the last 3 years or so.

So a couple of weeks ago, I offered the site – and all its content and extensions (forum, archive etc) to Kev, who currently administers the forum. He quickly enlisted the help of fellow admin Mike and now they plan to take the site onto the next level. I’m sure they’ll be posting their plans up soon enough and I’m sure there’s plenty of new features that will be added as well as current ones improved.

That’s all.

I hope you continue to enjoy the site under its new management.