The hosting and hence security certificate expired and hence the site has been down most of the day.

The owner has received several warnings but taken no action I am told.

I could not get hold of the owner once again, so I have contacted the hosting company and paid the £94.95 invoice out of the £112.05 funds I had banked for the forum.

There is the second half of the bill to pay next week for just over £20 and that will exhaust the £17.10 I still hold.

Safe for another year! unless the owner closes the site over which I have no control.

I will make another attempt to contact the owner and find his intentions.

As far as the future is concerned then the same will happen this time next year as things stand. The hosting company have agreed to copy me in on invoices. I will make sure the other two admins have contact details for the hosting company and admin access to the forum in case anything happens to me.

Basically we need to discuss the future next Spring and decide if we want the forum to carry on. I'll look at the website that holds the forum and make it look a bit less abandoned, but I am not keen enough to regularly update it. The forum is, I feel, what most members want.

I'll manage the forum for the next year.

Thanks again to all who have contributed.

We are having some work done at my house from Thursday and my office will be out of commission for a few days. I have my phone and will keep an eye open but am unlikely to post. Good chance for me to do some long overdue spannering!