Cafes You Should Visit #1: Popham Airfield

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This was recommended by one of my neighbours (AJS/Matchless owner). Just off the A303 – if you’ve driven down to Stonehenge you will have seen this place. A small green strip alongside the dual carriageway.

Notwithstanding the August Mega Meet that they host here every year, the clubroom cafe is a gem. Cosy, brilliant service, good food and a great view!

During the week there’s a decent coffee machine (£1) and interesting people to chat to. At weekends, the coffee shop is open serving bacon/sausage sandwiches, full breakfast, fry-ups etc.

Give it a try.

Dreamweaver: A Leap of Faith…

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As the number of sites that I manage (and host) has grown, I have become increasingly frustrated with Microsoft FrontPage. Although I started off (a few years back) using FrontPage Extensions to do some clever* stuff, I find myself increasingly editing the HTML directly nowadays and using ftp via my desktop to upload files.
* well, I thought it was clever at the time…

Recently, I have been looking after www.YouTuba.org which is my son Chris’ tuba quartet’s site. He puts this together on his MacBook and as far as FrontPage is concerned, might as well not exist. He has struggled with the Mac’s built-in application as well.

Now we both have Dreamweaver – me for the PC and him for the Mac, which should make joint management and updates a lot simpler.

I have started to convert www.PhilRead.org (including a new eCommerce platform) and will move on to my other sites:

www.nirvana-motorcycles.com

www.classicbikegallery.co.uk (includes old eCommerce platform)

www.total-trust.com

www.YouTuba.org (includes old eCommerce platform)

Red Elastic Bands (Updated 20-Feb-2011)

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Every day the postman brings me one of these:

Every day I remove the red elastic band and throw it away.

That’s about 300 red elastic bands per year.

Where do they all go?  (answer = landfill)

Even when there’s only one envelope, it’s still normally held together with a red elastic band!

Am I:

  1. A Grumpy Old Man
  2. Worrying unnecessarily?
  3. Wasting my time?

Maybe I’ll save them up and take them back to the Post Office…

Update: 20-Feb-2011

It looks like I am “None of the above”! It took the Telegraph to ask the Royal Mail under the Freedom of Information Act:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12518196

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Spam comment posts have reached 50 per day (all captured by Aksimet so never came anywhere near the blog) so I have changed the setting so that commenters must register and login before posting. As most of my commenters are already members this probably won’t affect too many.

I’ll give it a few weeks and see how it goes.

Steve

Update

24 hours on and no spam comments.  Success!

I’ll switch it back on and see how long it takes them to find me again.

Update 07-Dec-10

Comments switched back on – let’s see what happens…

Update 10-Dec-10

50 spam comments per day 🙁