I have had trouble with a few technical tasks on my website, sign up forms for example. For an experienced webmaster, setting up an Online form is not an easy task. We were about to see if we could afford to pay for a programmer to design some templates. But then we found out there was a site called Forms4Free.com, which was set up for inexperienced web designer. It means we can create an HTML form using their FormWizard online. Recently they decided to provide an extra service – a formmail file for $19.95. The formmail file is a processing file that gets uploaded to the website, and it processes the HTML form and emails, to the webmaster, the answers from the form. This is a great way of keeping control of your signup data at a very low price.

When you go an holiday you can see some good deals for flights and accommodation, but normally you don’t know how much to budget for food, drinks and activities. This makes it hard to know what you can afford. There is a company called Vacations.net that offers all inclusive resort holidays at prices that are often hard to believe! But if you look at the photos of their locations you will be pleasantly surprised. These are not ordinary old package destinations: they are luxurious centres devoted to your holiday enjoyment. If you thought it would unbelievably expensive, take another look. These prices mostly include all your meals, soft drinks, wine, often even the mini bar in your room. An extra bonus is that things like snorkelling and scuba, grab these while they last.

Here is another story of a doggie mishap that ended happily. I think it is good that the Fire and Rescue services can help out when a pet is in danger.
‘A dog who got her head stuck in a pot had to be rescued by the fire service in Hampshire. The mishap occurred when Siberian husky, Scarlet, got her head stuck in a terracotta pot while playing in her garden in Church Road, Locks Heath. The 17-month-old popped her head inside the pot when a pebble dropped into it. Her worried owner called Hampshire fire service who sent an animal rescue specialist to remove the pot, returning Scarlet to her playful self. Anton Phillips, from Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service’s rural safety team, said: “This was quite an unusual call. “The owner did a great job in keeping Scarlet as calm as possible before I got there. “As you can see, Scarlet was completely unharmed in the incident and was immediately back to her old self.”

Here is another doggie accident with a happy ending after a young Lakeland Terrier fell into a badger sett while walking on the moors. You can also see the film of his rescue here.

‘A mechanical digger was brought in to rescue a dog that had been trapped underground for a week in County Durham. Under the glare of arc lights, the machine shifted 10 tonnes of earth to create a series of trenches to find three-year-old Lakeland Terrier, Tyke. A firm supplied the equipment for the operation after being contacted by the dog’s owner Stephen Walling. Tyke had gone missing down a badger sett while being walked in Castleside, County Durham. The Protection of Badgers Act 1992 bans anyone from interfering with a sett and a licence needs to be granted. Satellite sett. Natural England spokesman Jim Milner said it granted the licence because it was a satellite badger sett, rather than the main one. He said: “In that situation there was a live dog down there which everyone knew was alive. “From the badger point of view the fact that it wasn’t a main sett meant that there was less risk to the badger. It was probably not a breeding sett.” He said an officer supervised the work and found no sign of current badger activity. The sett also had to be reinstated after the work. ‘Cry for help’ Mr Walling got in touch with Mechplant North East Ltd to ask them for help. When all the permissions were granted they moved on to the site on Wednesday afternoon with a 360 degree excavator. The company provided its services free of charge. Managing director Stephen Makinson said: “It was really a cry for help from the dog’s owner on Tuesday. “At first we were a bit hesitant because there were various bodies involved but once we were told all the people involved had given their permission we moved one of our machines there. “It’s certainly not what we usually do as a construction company. We don’t often get people saying can you come and rescue my dog. It has been good.”

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Maybe it was sunny on the other side of the wall or perhaps this Husky smelled some food through the gap, but somehow he got his head stuck in the open brick in his garden wall. The six-month-old male husky, called Keano, became trapped by his jaw in a garden in Whitchurch, Hampshire. A neighbour alerted the dog’s owner, who found Keano’s head stuck in the ornamental brick wall and called in Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service. A chisel was used to chip off part of the wall that was trapping the dog. Rural safety officer Anton Phillips said: “This was quite an unusual call and the owner did a great job in keeping her pet as calm as possible before I got there. “Without the owner’s patience and ability to keep the dog quiet, this could have resulted in a much worse scenario for Keano.”

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