• I feel like I’m tempting providence, but it seems my site has been sorted out. The hackers had managed to get a secret account on my site, so what ever I did to stop them was useless, they had their own password that let them do what they wanted. My ISP has cleaned that out and I’m resolved not to use free scripts on my site anymore.

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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.