Welcome
to Lyndenlea, my home on the web!
Click here to see a photo of Lyndenlea.
Lyndenlea is name of the house in Mangotsfield in which I live. Translated from its "Olde English" origins, it means Lime Tree Meadow. I don't know why the house was given this name - there were certainly fields all around until the mid-1990s, and of course more before the house was built in 1954, but whether there was ever a lime tree nearby I couldn't say. Perhaps someone just liked the name.
There are a number of different websites here at Lyndenlea, each one more interesting than the last, and they are all accessible via the Other Lyndenlea websites drop-down menu near the top-right corner of each page. A brief introduction to each website can be found in the Site Index.
If this is your first visit to Lyndenlea you might like to spend a couple of minutes reading about The Websites. This section describes many of the features I have implemented to make your visit safer and more enjoyable, and includes details of the various technologies I used to create them.
You might also be interested to know that the name of Lyndenlea has been immortalised in verse, albeit very indirectly and with a slight variation on the spelling. Take a look at this short section to find out more about The Poem in question and the song that followed.
Latest Site News
07 August 2010
- Time for a quick update on my spammers blacklist. I've been adding IP addresses to it gradually over the last nine months and I'm now blocking no less than eighty-four! In a few cases, however, the same subnets have kept popping up, so I've adapted my code to also check against a new list of twelve subnets - all belonging to the same hosting company based in Belize, as it happens. As it's a hosting company rather than an ISP I can only assume their servers are being used as proxies by the spammers, so I doubt very much that I'm blocking any legitimate users.
For previous Site News bulletins, please see the Site News Archive.
