I'm sure those who have packed the kids and ancillary equipment in the car for a family beach holiday can picture this.

The car (a people mover) is packed, bikes mounted on the rack, kids (3) are strapped in. SWMBO is inside the house locking up. Start up the car with intent to move it out of the garage, notice the door ajar light is on. Check passenger doors; all closed. Track problem to the rear door.

Problem is, you can't open the rear door far because the bikes are in the way. The door needs a fair slam to close it properly. So, supporting self with left hand, lean between the car and bikes, open rear door as far as possible, close with all your might, jamming little and ring fingers of the left hand in the door.

Swear profusely!

Release door off fingers. Swear somemore!

We hadn't even left the house before having a major calamity!

The ring finger got off relatively lightly, but little finger was broken above the top joint. Nail root crushed. Repair work meant no swimming for five days. Bugger!

Could have been worse, I suppose.

Anyway, I'm back. Thanks to Mark for looking after the shop.

US Construction worker has a lucky break here:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Its-a-pretty-rare-injury

From the picture this little piggy wonders whether there was much in there to destroy before that happened, or whether this is the side effect of his injection...

The chief pig is having a break so there may or (more likely) may not be any posts from me in the next week or so.

The sty's foreign correspondent may fill the void. We'll have to wait and see.

Bye for now.

A new blogger is moving into the sty.

Mark is my nephew and currently lives the the Czech Republic. He's been traveling and living overseas for some years.

Unlike the chief pig, Mark has natural writing skills and I'm sure will be a welcome addition to the Porcine Airport.

Surfing around different blog sites, I've noticed that many bloggers are moving to Wordpress. I wasn't aware of WP when I started my blog; if I had known about it, I may have gone that way from the beginning.

Having forked out A$90 to MT for the privilege of getting support, I won't be moving anytime soon. The new version, 3.14, combined with MT Blacklist, has (for me) fixed the problem of comment spam.

I note that some WP users are having spam problems.

Also, I've invested too much effort in the templates to change now.

MT will force the change when it brings out a new version and wants more money for it, and / or if the new version requires extensive modification of the templates. I predict that will happen within 12 months.