First of all, thank you all for your patience while I made a few tweaks to the site.
I ended up actually going down a bit of a rabbit hole of updating one thing which required another thing be updated first and so on ... before I knew it I'd updated the framework platform and most of the sub-components used and then got carried away trying to do some optimizations as well. All worthwhile though and a little overdue.
Anyway, I broke a few thing along the way but I also fixed a few things too ... erm, unfortunately they didn't always quite match up so there are still a few things outstanding that I need to fix and am working on.
But, I'm hoping that dispite the short-term pain the site should now load and run just a little bit faster for you. Well, that's the intention - I'd be interested to hear how you find it. I'm using "one true browser" (Google Chrome) and it seems zippier to me but that may just all be in my head because I want to see it.
Also, post any current issues here that are still outstanding. Please check first that the issue still exists first and if someone has already posted it, no need to tell me about it again (or if it's "I'm seeing someone else's name" I don't need to be told every name you've seen!)
I'll update this topic as things are fixed / addressed so we only need to look in one place.
Oh, also please do a hard refresh (Ctrl + F5) as a first step to make sure your browser has the latest versions of all site scripts etc... as this can often solve transient issues.
Many thanks peeps !