looks good Rae, looking forward to checking out the new site, the only thing is still wondering when the chat app will be up and running?hugs, ursula

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Ok ... aside from the fact that it is a big run-on sentence.....  Name the Novelist and novel (without Googling or Binging it)..

Right, you weren't the only one Rae, I have heard the phrase so often, but did not realize it was actually part of a novel,  I have no idea either.

"It was a dark and stormy night" is an infamous phrase written by Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton at the beginning of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford.[1] The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest uses the phrase as a signifier of purple prose.

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest was formed to "celebrate" the worst extremes in this style. The contest, sponsored by the English Department of San Jose State University, recognizes the worst examples of "dark and stormy night" writing.

• In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Royale", the fictional novel begins with this line, prompting Jean-Luc Picard to comment, "Not a promising beginning."