Blog admin getting Server Error 500 – perch2_blogs table disappeared?

Hi,

Can't access perch blog admin area anymore. I've seen this thread https://forum.grabaperch.com/forum/12-11-2015-perch-blog-not-loading-and-getting-server-error-500 which resolves itself by adding the table perch2_blogs back into the db. I'm working locally and it seems the perch2_blogs table doesn't exist. Not being familiar with how to do such things (having tried without success) I'm not sure what I need to do.

php_error.log

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to a member function setSlug() on boolean in …/perch/addons/apps/perch_blog/modes/list.pre.php:37
Stack trace:
#0 …/perch/addons/apps/perch_blog/index.php(12): include()
#1 {main}
  thrown in …/perch/addons/apps/perch_blog/modes/list.pre.php on line 37

Perch daignostics

Perch: 2.8.34
Production mode: Production (100)
Installed apps: content (2.8.34), assets (2.8.34), categories (2.8.34), perch_blog (5.0), perch_forms (1.8.3)
DB driver: PDO
DB tables: perch2_blog_authors (1), perch2_blog_comments (0), perch2_blog_index (278), perch2_blog_posts (3), perch2_blog_posts_to_tags (0), perch2_blog_sections (1), perch2_blog_tags (0), perch2_categories (6), perch2_category_counts (3), perch2_category_sets (2), perch2_content_index (2400), perch2_content_items (267), perch2_content_regions (17), perch2_forms (1), perch2_forms_responses (13), perch2_navigation (2), perch2_navigation_pages (8), perch2_page_templates (1), perch2_pages (7), perch2_resource_log (583), perch2_resource_tags (0), perch2_resources (563), perch2_resources_to_tags (0), perch2_settings (25), perch2_user_passwords (0), perch2_user_privileges (40), perch2_user_role_privileges (16), perch2_user_roles (2), perch2_users (2)
Users: 2
PHPMailer: 5.2.21
App runtimes:
<?php
    $apps_list = array(
        'content', 
        'categories',
        'perch_blog',
        'perch_forms',
    );
Scheduled tasks for perch_blog: delete_spam_comments (1440 mins)
Editor plug-ins: markitup
H1: 421aa90e079fa326b6494f812ad13e79
L1: 073c7e467a94bad9cb28b711609a814a
F1: 6a33f95eca3667f9e0c39bf5ca2980fe
headerColour: #ffffff
content_singlePageEdit: 1
helpURL:
siteURL: /
hideBranding: 1
content_collapseList: 1
lang: en-gb
update_2.8.13: done
latest_version: 2.8.15
on_sale_version: 2.8.34
perch_blog_update: 5.0.1
perch_blog_post_url: /thinking/{postSlug}
headerScheme: light
perch_blog_slug_format: {postTitle}
perch_blog_akismet_key:
perch_blog_max_spam_days: 0
dashboard: 0
hide_pwd_reset: 0
content_hideNonEditableRegions: 0
content_frontend_edit: 0
perch_blog_comment_notify: 0
update_2.8.18: done
perch_blog_site_name: Thoughts from Daughter
logoPath: /perch/resources/daughter-logo.png
update_2.8.34: done
PERCH_DEVELOPMENT: 10
PERCH_STAGING: 50
PERCH_PRODUCTION: 100
PERCH_DB_USERNAME: root
PERCH_DB_SERVER: localhost
PERCH_DB_DATABASE: daughter_v5_local
PERCH_DB_PREFIX: perch2_
PERCH_TZ: UTC
PERCH_EMAIL_FROM: greg@daughter.is
PERCH_EMAIL_FROM_NAME: Greg Owen
PERCH_LOGINPATH: /perch
PERCH_PATH: /Users/Daughter-Greg/Code/daughter_v5/perch
PERCH_CORE: /Users/Daughter-Greg/Code/daughter_v5/perch/core
PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /Users/Daughter-Greg/Code/daughter_v5/perch/resources
PERCH_RESPATH: /perch/resources
PERCH_HTML5: 1
PERCH_DEBUG:
PERCH_RUNWAY:
PERCH_ERROR_MODE: DIE
PERCH_DATE_LONG: %d %B %Y
PERCH_DATE_SHORT: %d %b %Y
PERCH_TIME_SHORT: %H:%M
PERCH_TIME_LONG: %H:%M:%S
PERCH_RUNWAY_ROUTED:
PERCH_STRONG_PASSWORDS:
PERCH_PREVIEW_ARG: preview
PERCH_TEMPLATE_PATH: /Users/Daughter-Greg/Code/daughter_v5/perch/templates
PERCH_DEFAULT_DOC: index.php
PERCH_DEFAULT_EXT: .php
PERCH_PRODUCTION_MODE: 100
PERCH_RWD:
PERCH_HTML_ENTITIES:
PERCH_SSL:
PERCH_STRIPSLASHES:
PERCH_PROGRESSIVE_FLUSH: 1
PERCH_PARANOID:
PERCH_FORCE_SECURE_COOKIES:
PERCH_PASSWORD_MIN_LENGTH: 6
PERCH_MAX_FAILED_LOGINS: 10
PERCH_AUTH_LOCKOUT_DURATION: 1 HOUR
PERCH_VERIFY_UPLOADS:
PERCH_AUTH_PLUGIN:
PERCH_DB_CHARSET: utf8
PERCH_DB_PORT:
PERCH_DB_SOCKET:
PERCH_SESSION_TIMEOUT_MINS: 20
HOSTING SETTINGS

PHP: 7.1.0
Zend: 3.1.0-dev
OS: Darwin
SAPI: apache2handler
Safe mode: not detected
MySQL client: mysqlnd 5.0.12-dev - 20150407 - $Id: d8daadaf41e3cd81d7c6ae96c6091fd15b2c9382 $
MySQL server: 5.6.34
Free disk space: 81.65 GB
Extensions: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, sqlite3, zlib, bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, hash, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, SPL, iconv, intl, json, ldap, mbstring, session, standard, mysqlnd, PDO, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, Phar, posix, Reflection, mysqli, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, exif, tokenizer, wddx, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, apache2handler
GD: Yes
ImageMagick: No
PHP max upload size: 32M
PHP max form post size: 32M
PHP memory limit: 128M
Total max uploadable file size: 32M
Resource folder writeable: Yes
Session timeout: 24 minutes
Native JSON: Yes
Filter functions: Yes
Transliteration functions: Yes
HTTP_HOST: localhost:8888
HTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive
HTTP_UPGRADE_INSECURE_REQUESTS: 1
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.95 Safari/537.36
HTTP_ACCEPT: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
HTTP_REFERER: https://localhost:8888/perch/core/settings/diagnostics/
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate, sdch, br
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-US,en;q=0.8
HTTP_COOKIE: wp-settings-1=editor%3Dhtml%26libraryContent%3Dbrowse%26hidetb%3D1; wp-settings-time-1=1478847504; __utma=111872281.255574403.1435825684.1485335599.1485340072.21; __utmc=111872281; __utmz=111872281.1461057744.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); wp-settings-3=unfold%3D0%26mfold%3Do%26editor%3Dtinymce%26libraryContent%3Dbrowse; wp-settings-time-3=1485527633; wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; _ga=GA1.1.255574403.1435825684; cmsa=1; SQLiteManager_currentLangue=2; PHPSESSID=476c7eb50f0fdddae6fd771456a735de
PATH: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/2.2.31 (Unix) mod_wsgi/3.5 Python/2.7.12 PHP/7.1.0 mod_ssl/2.2.31 OpenSSL/1.0.2j DAV/2 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_perl/2.0.9 Perl/v5.24.0
SERVER_NAME: localhost
SERVER_ADDR: ::1
SERVER_PORT: 8888
REMOTE_ADDR: ::1
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /Users/Daughter-Greg/Code/daughter_v5
SERVER_ADMIN: you@example.com
SCRIPT_FILENAME: /Users/Daughter-Greg/Code/daughter_v5/perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
REMOTE_PORT: 49304
GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_METHOD: GET
QUERY_STRING: extended
REQUEST_URI: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/?extended
SCRIPT_NAME: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
PHP_SELF: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT: 1486416403.69
REQUEST_TIME: 1486416403
argc: 1

Looks like I'm missing that all important perch2_blogs table but don't know how it disappeared, or how to get it back without re-installing everything and losing all the content, although if it comes to it, happy to go down that route.