• Paula has been cutting my hair for quite a while now. Recently she moved around the corner and opened up her own barber shop – good for her, I say – and so I followed her to the new premises.

    The old Barbers have always had a sign on the pavement by the bank, sending customers up the quieter St Johns Street. Paula now has her sign defiantly sending customers in the opposite direction. Just in case anyone gets a headache deciding where to go, Vicky’s Cafe is touting for business too. Go and have a cup of tea while you think about it!

  • For every high there has to be a low. Yin and Yang, ebb and flow. Yesterday I was on the front page of WordPress.com and today I’m not.

    The trouble with a massive spike on a blog’s statistics chart is that it makes all the tiny gains in readership look pathetic. That slow increase in readership is levelled out to what looks like a flat line at virtual zero!

    Maybe the thing to do is not look at my stats for a couple of weeks until the spike has been pushed off the graph and things settle down to normality? But, for a stats junkie, that would mean going cold turkey!

    If I put a direct link in my tool bar to a new page so I don’t have to go through my dashboard then I’d not have to see the graph. Actually I can turn the graph off in Dashboard if I like, then I have to make a conscious decision to look at it – Hmmm! How strong willed am I?

    Then I’d have to cut back on viewing all my other stats. Maybe WordPress could be a start – Hi, My name is Shoo Rayner and I’m webstats addict.

  • I’ve been away a lot recently, and very busy doing other stuff too. How pleasant to be able to do a new video for you all. Watch the video and learn how to draw a teddy bear. I’f you’d like to see this at school but Youtube is blocked, my Drawing School site at www.shoorayner.com/DrawingSchool. I’ve seen these videos get past the school blocking filters as they come fro my site and not from Youtube. If they don’t get through, ask your IT dept to unblock the site for you as it is a safe, educational site.