does the diary actually ever work?

[squig]

I'm just wondering what kind of tricks we need to use to get the diary to work on this site- it would be really lovely to look at it and find out what's going on locally without having to trawl through the forum, although it is true that trawling through the forum is actually really interesting!

Any clues anyone? It's been several weeks since I tried and followed up... and tried again...