The internet is a wonderful, wonderful thing.* Besides all the glories of shops, blogs, forums and such, it is populated with very clever and more importantly, extremely generous people.

One of those generous, clever strangers appears to have fixed one of the bugbears we've suffered with since opening: the need to choose a county/state/province at checkout (choosing only from a US/UK list, of course). The good folk who designed our shopping cart software (which I do believe is pretty darn good, generally) did realise that there were knitters in other countries... but for reasons that passeth understanding, they put the "Not UK/USA" option slap dab in the middle of the alphabetical list. How daft is that? Very. (Frankly, I am amazed and thoroughly impressed at how many people managed to find it. Many did. Brilliant, you lot. Brilliant. And very patient.) It also wasn't possible to simply leave that field blank.

Until now.

It's still stuck there between Northwest Territories and Nottinghamshire, of course. We haven't fixed that part. But we** have made it so that you can discreetly ignore such silly questions. I breathe a too long held sigh of relief...

We still have a couple of niggles, of course, and we are working on them. Do let me know if you find this is still not working for you. I'll cry, but I'll get right back on it.

(PS. Alice closed today. Looks as though a little nonsense was just the thing to get those juices flowing - I haven't done more than scan the entries, but so far they seem pretty darn impressive. Why ever did I start this thing?! It's so impossible to choose between all the talent!)

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* If you read the latest Yarn Forward (it'll be on the shelves any day now, I hear) you can read more about why I think t'internet has been the greatest invention for knitters since, well, needles.
** Where "we" = "generous, clever strangers"