Thanks to feorag's tips, I've managed to sort out one of the problems on my language quiz. Basically, one sentence which combined different alphabets looked wrong in Mozilla and Firefox, though it came out OK in Internet Explorer - the sentence should read (and now does read)

עזור ל-Tails לאסוף את כל הבננות. בהצלחה !

but I was having huge difficulty in persuading the exclamation mark to get to the end of the line, the previous version read

עזור ל-! Tails לאסוף את כל הבננות. בהצלחה

I think the lesson for me is that unless you specify your language, and give your browser very clear instructions about which bits are LTR and which RTL, you can expect to have problems. Anyway I'm very pleased with the result, it's enabled me to strip out large amounts of code from the language quiz which I was scared of touching because I didn't know what would happen if I changed it.

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August 2001-present: here.

Crumbs, in the ten years before we moved to this house I had lived at 13 different addresses in four countries, and including three separate periods of a couple of months of crashing with friends or relatives between more permanent residences. I like to think we've achieved a bit more stability now.

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Out of interest I did the lj connect calculation from teemus, the inventor of this lovely idea, and deborah_c and wyvernfriend, who I got it from in the first instance. He is four hops away from both of them; but only three hops away from me. Thus the meme starts to go in reverse...