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    Some of my readers will know about my book, Alpabetty, Alpha Betty (Starters) about a girl who wants to be a signwriter. I wrote this because I was a signwriter myself, a long, long time ago.

    I recently came across our local signwriter, Lee, working on the Angel pub in Coleford. He says there’s not enough full-time work for traditional signwriters. Everyone has computer made signs now. The plot of Alpha Betty has come true. All except for the happy ending. Lee says he dreams of painting boats on a sandy Greek shore!

    So nice to see a real craftsman at work.

  • Skeleton

    I fixed up the skeleton that I made for a cupboard at the wonderful Forest House Hotel in Coleford, yesterday. I made it a couple of years ago for fun.

    When you open the door the eyes light up and the arms and legs move. Children love it so much, they finally broke the strings, so I had to go and fix them up again.

    I couldn’t remember how I had arranged things. There were a number of complicated ways I thought I could have done it. Then I remembered I had found a really simple system. It didn’t need much movement. Just a little was enough – after all, no one knows what to expect when the open the cupboard.

  • My site has been under attack from evil so and sos, who want to turn it into a fake PayPal site for those poor people who open those fake emails that ask for passwords. It seems that the software I had been using for my blog has become very attackable. So I have decided to run my blog on WordPress.org, where I don’t have to be responsible for all the updating a security.

    Sadly, this means I have to start from scratch. I may go through the files I have and see if it’s worth reposting. It would be an enormous job so don’t hold your breath. Im in a, “…sorry for your loss – now move on!” mood at the moment. I hope the rest of the site is working fine. That is built with Rapidweaver, which is renowned for producing nice, clean code.