Just a quickie this week. Had a great few days in Langdale with my wife, got a bit of walking done (I still ache), got a lot of midge bites, and drank some fine ale in Elterwater's great pub, The Britannia Inn.
Now back in the Boro and today's main event has been Matt having his knee op, all has gone well and he is in good spirits and back home - will be a couple of months until he's back playing rugby and then we'll get back to proper weekends of bacon butties, boshing and beer!
Saturday, 27 July 2013
Saturday, 13 July 2013
How Do You Fit in Holidays?
As the owner of a small business I simply don't know how to fit in a holiday. A week tomorrow I go away for the best part of a week and whilst I could really do with a break, I could also do with not having a break due to workload.
Last year I had a couple of long weekends away with mates but no summer holiday. This year I'm off up to the Lake District with my lovely wife to do some walking in Langdale. I love it, though Borrowdale is my favourite location, as there is excellent walking and, in my opinion, the best pub in the World (The Britannia Inn, Elterwater) about 100m from where we're staying. Phone reception is pretty non-existent until we get up a fell so there's not routine phone calls - but will I relax? Only time will tell.
It's going to be an extremely busy week to get as much done as possible before I go and an extremely busy week when I get back, especially as Matt is having his knee operation the day after we return as well.
So what have we been up to? Tons of work on the white-label project but not really getting any content off the clients so that's going to run late when I go on hol. We've got a nice design ready to go with some nice javascript bits for interactivity but at the moment it's just full of the standard Latin text for place-holders so can't go live.
Moseley Marketing Transport Planning site has been launched which is a very simple but responsive Wordpress site as requested by the client who will be filling in their own content. New outline designs were created for Marie Kilgallon Associates and Ashgrove B and B in Kircaldy on our test server. There were also some updates to our own site, which will continue, and Rock and Rollabilia's site.
A chunk of new clients were signed up over the last week or so including the Get Britain Cycling Magazine, Shonette Bason-Wood (who will be a star and is off on a speaking tour in South Africa very shortly), Cash4That plus new sites for expanding clients J&J Plant Hire. Work has started on all of these.
We're still also working on the Give It A Go site plus got some other irons in the fire for including some potentially large jobs. With meetings with newish clients from Epigem and Elite Serviced Apartments as well next week, that holiday is looking like a bad idea!
Last year I had a couple of long weekends away with mates but no summer holiday. This year I'm off up to the Lake District with my lovely wife to do some walking in Langdale. I love it, though Borrowdale is my favourite location, as there is excellent walking and, in my opinion, the best pub in the World (The Britannia Inn, Elterwater) about 100m from where we're staying. Phone reception is pretty non-existent until we get up a fell so there's not routine phone calls - but will I relax? Only time will tell.
It's going to be an extremely busy week to get as much done as possible before I go and an extremely busy week when I get back, especially as Matt is having his knee operation the day after we return as well.
So what have we been up to? Tons of work on the white-label project but not really getting any content off the clients so that's going to run late when I go on hol. We've got a nice design ready to go with some nice javascript bits for interactivity but at the moment it's just full of the standard Latin text for place-holders so can't go live.
Moseley Marketing Transport Planning site has been launched which is a very simple but responsive Wordpress site as requested by the client who will be filling in their own content. New outline designs were created for Marie Kilgallon Associates and Ashgrove B and B in Kircaldy on our test server. There were also some updates to our own site, which will continue, and Rock and Rollabilia's site.
A chunk of new clients were signed up over the last week or so including the Get Britain Cycling Magazine, Shonette Bason-Wood (who will be a star and is off on a speaking tour in South Africa very shortly), Cash4That plus new sites for expanding clients J&J Plant Hire. Work has started on all of these.
We're still also working on the Give It A Go site plus got some other irons in the fire for including some potentially large jobs. With meetings with newish clients from Epigem and Elite Serviced Apartments as well next week, that holiday is looking like a bad idea!
Sunday, 7 July 2013
Lions! Lions!
A busy and productive week at work but everything pales into insignificance after yesterday's Lions victory. For those of us into rugby union from the four home nations the Lions is the biggest thing barring the latter stages of a World Cup. It is a unique team bringing together four nations that are at each other's throats for the four years between tours (but for the education of footy fans, we still sit together, drink together, and wind each other up without resorting to violence). The tours are against the best three teams in the World, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand who each host the Lions every 12 years.
It's a big deal and the Lions rarely win a test series. Yesterday they won the series 2-1 with an emphatic and dominant performance against Australia. Some have questioned whether the Lions has a place in the professional era. Ask the players of both sides, the coaching staff, the many thousands of fans who paid a lot of money to travel to watch the games in the flesh, the millions who watched on TV - yesterday was a great day and it makes those Lions players legends regardless of which of the 4 nations they came from.
There are a few annoying things about it though with idiots voicing opinions such as "there's too many Welshmen in the squad", "Gatland is a Kiwi", etc. Well I'm English, if I was picking the squad there would have been a couple of more Englishmen, I would have played BOD at outside centre in the last test, I would have picked Croft and Tipuric instead of O'Brien and Lydiate and I was wrong on all counts. Outstanding performance by all - loved every minute even though I lost money (I had the Lions to win the test but by a lesser margin).
Warren Gatland showed what management is about, difficult decisions, no sentiment but based on fact and backing yourself. And boy did he get it right.
The vast majority of Lions fans had a great day yesterday and look forward to shortly being at each other throats again but with increased respect. And it's now time to stuff the Aussies at cricket!
It's a big deal and the Lions rarely win a test series. Yesterday they won the series 2-1 with an emphatic and dominant performance against Australia. Some have questioned whether the Lions has a place in the professional era. Ask the players of both sides, the coaching staff, the many thousands of fans who paid a lot of money to travel to watch the games in the flesh, the millions who watched on TV - yesterday was a great day and it makes those Lions players legends regardless of which of the 4 nations they came from.
There are a few annoying things about it though with idiots voicing opinions such as "there's too many Welshmen in the squad", "Gatland is a Kiwi", etc. Well I'm English, if I was picking the squad there would have been a couple of more Englishmen, I would have played BOD at outside centre in the last test, I would have picked Croft and Tipuric instead of O'Brien and Lydiate and I was wrong on all counts. Outstanding performance by all - loved every minute even though I lost money (I had the Lions to win the test but by a lesser margin).
Warren Gatland showed what management is about, difficult decisions, no sentiment but based on fact and backing yourself. And boy did he get it right.
The vast majority of Lions fans had a great day yesterday and look forward to shortly being at each other throats again but with increased respect. And it's now time to stuff the Aussies at cricket!
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