A complete tech drift but.

I obviously don't understand mudcat technology as the thread above appears under the heading "Sidmouth Closed" when I thought I typed "The Olympics & Sidmouth Festival".

I can explain that one to you Dave. Thread creation is a 2 step process here. That is common with most relational database solutions as the details of the thread and of the posts that relate to that thread will be in seperate tables. They get joined by a related field (in this case it looks to be called threadid - incedentally thats how a post gets moved, change that number and a post becomes part of a different thread to a user).

On Mudcat, the 2 step process is visible (a system like mine at the Annexe makes 2 steps look as one - it does the work in the background rather than needing 2 submits). In the first step here, you created the thread and gave the thread the title "Sidmouth Closed" in the second step having created the thread you make the first post and posts here allow a Subject. On that you entered "The Olympics & Sidmouth Festival" and that can be seen by looking at the subject of your first post.

If you look at all the subsequent posts, they revert to "Sidmouth Closed" because they take the default from the original thread title.