The view from Haresfield Beacon
Posted on | July 19, 2010 | No Comments
Went for a seven mile walk in the Cotswolds the other day starting at Haresfield Beacon, passing through Randwick, following paths mapped out for the ‘Cotswold Way’.
Took a little panoramic video of the view from Haresfield Beacon and thought I should share it, but of course this video doesn’t even begin to do it justice, so if you haven’t seen it for yourself get your (walking) boots on!
Going to start blogging again
Posted on | July 18, 2010 | No Comments
In the past year or so I’ve been pretty busy with a few things, mainly running my web design business Tangy Media with my business partner Laurence Morgan, as well as moving house, so have not really found the time to blog about anything worth reading. But after playing around with WordPress 3.0 (the web platform that powers this blog) for clients, I really want to take a look at it from my perspective and requirements, and I know that the best way to do this is to be blogging.
Another thing, I’ve never really got into ‘tweeting’, that said I do check twitter 2-3 times a week to see what’s going on with the people I follow, mainly musicians and liked celebrities, but I never have the urge to tweet myself. So in order to get more tweeting experience I’m going to set up some automated tweet process whenever I write a blog post, since I have a feeling that Twitter will need some attention for some client requirements in the future.
One last thing, I’ve always thought that personal blogging is a great way to save memories and thoughts. I can only imagine what fun I’ll have reading this blog back in 40 years time, grimacing and perhaps laughing at what I used to spend my precious time on.
So there it is, my disclaimer about why I’m bothering to blog, and why when you read some of the tripe that seeps out of my fingers, I can say it’s ‘for work purposes’ to save any self embarrassment.
Homebrew beer #1 : Morgan’s Stockmans Draught
Posted on | September 12, 2009 | No Comments
Morgan’s Stockmans Draught is the kit I used for my first ever homebrew beer. I added 1kg of brewing sugar, and used the lager yeast supplied with the kit.
I left the beer to ferment for 14 days – this was not intentional, ideally I would have bottled it earlier. When being bottled into plastic 750ml bottles, I added brewing sugar to prime, and the fizz of the beer is just right.
I tried the beer 14 days after being bottled, and it tasted great. Slightly thin in body, refreshing and nutty in taste, Stockman’s Draught is much more of a flavoursome lager than than most commerical lagers, almost 30% ale and 70% lager tasting.
I am now leaving the bottles to mature, after which I will jot down my full tasting notes.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups spread on toast
Posted on | August 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
This morning I was feeling a little worse for wear after a heavy night on the booze. I went to the local shop to buy the Sunday papers, and saw some Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups which I just had to buy.
On returning home, a toast and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups marriage was made.
New design for proevonews.co.uk
Posted on | July 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
ProEvoNews.co.uk has gone through a feew design changes in the past couple of months…
First of all I made a blog style template that was simple to read, familer, and good for Adsense adverts. Then I thought I should make all thie articles on the site more accessable by using ‘Featured boxes’ around the homepage.
Taking inspiration from the awesome Woothemes WordPress designs, I created a template that would push every article to the reader’s attention, without making them spasm. I launched the new design with glee, but then realised the more complicated the template, the more complicated the publishing. Unfortunantly I couldn’t spend as much time or follow up to improve this this design as I’d liked…. SO…
Last week I realised that that this design was a bit rubbish. I’ve recently recruited some new writers for the blog, so I thought I would good to revert back to simple, blog like site. So far I’ve had good feedback from the usual visitors, and to be honest, whatever happens, you can’t go wrong when being simple 
Let me know what you think of the new design…
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