Excuse the lack of blogs. I have been tied up with a number of Projects (note the AA Milnesque capital P to make Prosaic Matters seem More Dynamic, Exciting and Important than they Really Are).
Some of the projects are Top-Secret Hush, Hush (See, I am Doing it Again) but the one I can tell you about is our new-look website, which launches tomorrow (Wednesday).
As many of you shamefully fail to check my blog every day, the chances are that it is now Thursday or Friday in your world and you've already seen the website, been wowed by its brilliance and have eagerly signed up to our e-mail newsletter service.
The newspaper is still fighting fit and bristling with attitude about the way motorists are being penalised by draconian enforcement of car parking rules.
So it was much delight that we revealed today how council staff have earmarked plenty of free space for themselves in traffic-clogged Conwy with the aid of a plastic bag that is wrapped round the car park ticket machine at Conwy Council's Bodlondeb HQ, only to be removed at weekends as the traffic wardens move in for the kill.
Long-serving readers may recall that I was stung with a fixed penalty ticket some time ago at Bodlondeb when out walking my dog. At the time I thought the machine was always broken because it always had a plastic bag on it and never even noticed in the driving rain that the said bag had for once been removed. I didn't notice the traffic warden either - they must have been hiding in the bushes.
Then my wife pointed out that the bag only appeared on weekdays...and that sparked today's page three.
It's been a positive delight to tell all my friends who live and work in Conwy and who pay a fortune for parking that there is in fact plenty of free space Monday to Friday. Just try and get there before all the council people take all the spaces.
Perhaps we also need signs on roads into Conwy pointing to "free parking at council offices". That should give the tourist industry a lift and stop tourists' cars clogging up the roads round the town.

John R. Walker wrote...
New site but it would be really nice if you could put the date back at the top of each online story - like it used to be - so we can see when we've reached the end of today's (I mean yesterday's) news!
Posted by: John R. Walker | September 6, 2007 11:21 AM