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April 22, 2013 · 10:01 am

It’s been a while!

I need to get more organised on here! When I update one of the social media I need the short message to be added to the site and vise verca. I’ve been busy in the garage and have some new products, and have also been to the first of the new seasons fairs.

Yesterday saw me back at Lytham Hall, unfortunately in a quiet room with not all the planned stall holders for there turning up. (What’s that about? – you book the event, pay for it and then don’t bother turning up!)

As part of a Mini meet, 120 mini owners, taking pride and polish to their machines in the mud and rain of a Lancashire field. Nonetheless, an enjoyable day, a couple of good sales and a few more quid in my pocket than at the start of the day.

I’ll be using the garage more, and promise to let you know what’s going on by getting more organised electronically as well.

Polishing my piston

This is not a euphemism, it is what I did most of Sunday morning. Have a look!

Here’s the before, a very dirty bottom I think you’ll agree. I guess if I’d done the equivalent of two and a half times round the world, having 200 explosions on my surface at engine tick over, I’d have built up some discolouration and residue. Cue two hours of elbow grease, some polishes, some other chemicals and quite a bit of hard work.

The result?

Have a look.

This is now ready for the new clock mechanisms I’ve got hold of and will be on a stall near you (if you’re in the North West of England) at a craft fair very soon!

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January 16, 2013 · 4:19 pm

.com or .org?

I thought I was reasonably technically savvy, but I spent an interesting morning with my friend Dan Jones DJ, trying to fathom the differences between our two blogs and sites. One major difference is that his is up, running and healthy, so I thought he was a good starting place, and I was right. He makes excellent home made bread and is a great host. Unfortunately we wasted a lot of time working out that his site is on a wordpress.org set up and mine is on a wordpress.com setup.

What’s the difference? Well I’m still not sure, his has his own webspace and so he gets some great applications running in the background. Mine is hosted by wordpress, but surely wordpress and wordpress will have some similarities? Let’s say the jury is out……

We are both men of relatively simple tastes (wives apart obviously!) We want to suggest our customers pay our websites a visit, we want them to see our facebook pages, to be updated via twitter, and in my case, to send them off to a shop to buy some products. Dan will want a date for your event and a deposit for his disco services. We also want to do all of this quickly, without the aid of a fourteen year old who is incapable of speaking English, or English we understand, and we want to do this as efficiently as possible.

I have a heavy heart and the same sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach as all those who have had beefburgers recently as I suspect that this is not going to be easy, or cheap. Wish me luck, I may be some time!

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January 15, 2013 · 11:21 am

Website welcome!

Hello world!

The first programme you write in any new language normally proclaims this message. The challenge ahead is simple – learn how WordPress works, publish what I’m doing and making, get links to my social media, get links to my on-line store and hopefully sell some as well.