What's that I hear?

What's that I hear? Baby patter? Baby elephant patter more like it.

No Ginsberg but a snippet of fellow Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem "Dog" currently accompanies the Webmaster's page*, but that's not the point. Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer will, assuming they have working speakers and have not clicked the mute button, have noticed sound accompanying some of our pages, whereas users of Apple's Safari will not - some may well say lucky Safari users.


Some like my correspondent, whose main query related to "problem on the fist newwsletter on WBarrow. Just comes. goes comes goes. What can it be?" although I had no idea quite what he meant the problem was probably solved by the same method noted in "Is the page up to date" (I say probably because he came back with "Hi. Just tried that. There is improvement, now it bleeps four or five times then the page stays there. Well at least an improvment. Cheer & thanks,..." I was foolish enough to wonder momentarily from what malaise his computer suffered but suspect now that it was a comment on the musical accompaniment).

If you hear sound and don't like it I have provided a toggle switch at the top right on some pages to turn it off, or just click on mute, it will probably be at the bottom right of your screen.


If you are using an Apple and would like to hear the sound files, I can only apologize as I know of no way of overcoming the problem. I believe it is just one of many incompatibility issues between Microsoft and Apple. If anyone has any ideas I would be glad to hear them.

*(The Webmaster's page is no more and all of the web site as it was in March 2009 has been rewritten, however the poem may still be heard on the Dog page.)