Welcome to the FAARTALS website, brought to you by the Fairfield and Avondale Retired Teachers &  Lecturers Society. As you can see we are mostly about walking in the countryside, preferably up and down hills and perhaps a little slowly as befits our venerable status. We are protected by,  St. Petronilla,  patron saint of hill walkers,  and enjoy the conviviality of hostelries where we imbibe in traditional potions to recover from our perambulatory exertions.  (Chief Faartal)

After a long period of inactivity,  Technical Support spotted that the site had been hacked by some fiend and was sporting a 'Trojan' infection.

Having performed a disinfection routine,  it was decided to bring the inner workings of the site right up to date.  So faartals.co.uk it is now running on the latest version of WordPress (2.9.1) in 'turbo mode.  There is some tidying up to do, but what we really need now is some new content.  Of course with all the snow around at the moment that may take a little longer to arrange,  or maybe not as everyone is at home huddled around the cosy glow from their PCs.

I have loaded the 'Adhesive' plugin,  which controls sticky posts on the home page and in categories. I haven't investigated it fully,  but it seems capable of keeping a post on top of the home page even if it isn't the newest. This is why I wanted it i.e. it keeps a particular item (e.g. a Welcome post) at the top of the front page. You may want to alter its content from time to time,  but it stops new posts pushing it down the page/screen,  preserving a little bit of structure.