Back to work!

Well back to work after a busy weekend. On Saturday a group of us from my Rotary Club pushed some of the residents of Ellerslie Court around Southport Flower Show. A lovely sunny morning and I think all the pushees had a good time.
In the afternoon we went to David & Sarah's for tea and a viewing of the newly decorated dining room. Both were very nice. Dining room looks very elegant and the squid curry was super. Thanks D&S. Couldn't watch Match of the Day 'cos I couldn't stand the sight of Man U winning 5-0.
On Sunday went back to the Flower Show for a church service led by the Bishop of Liverpool in the morning and a proper look around in the afternoon. Church service OK but I need to go to my own church tonight to sing something written in the last 30 years! The flower show is very nice but Heather's more interested than me so, when we'd finished grazing the food stalls, I was ready to go home.
Today I'm hopefully putting some more of the key cutting stuff on the website, so keep an eye on it for new products.

Further website developments

I've spent the last couple of days playing with the Adwords account on both the shop website and the locksmithing site. I've changed keywords and am now waiting to analyse the results. It's so frustrating playing this guessing game with the public. Google's answer is just to use every keyword you can think of and throw money at them, but, in these credit crunch times, that's just not practical.
I've had a load of hits on an experimental 'replacement keys' keyphrase so we've decided to get straight down to putting pre-cut coded keys on the website. I've had a look at one or two of the other sites and can't really say I'm impressed so I'll see whether I can come up with something that is a bit more user friendly.
I spent yesterday negotiating a (hopefully) good deal with Scoot. I find this quite difficult 'cos I'm spending someone else's money, so I think I'm probably bargaining harder than I would if I were using my own. This was particularly difficult as we've just got a breakdown of referrals to the locksmithing site from Yell.com and that is proving to be incredibly poor value for money. Scoot is much much cheaper so hopefully might be more cost effective.

Cropredy 2009

Hello all, got back yesterday from Fairport's Cropredy Convention in Oxfordshire. What a wonderful weekend. We got tremendous sets from Stevie Winwood, Richard Thompson, Seth Lakeman, Ralph Mactell and of course Fairport Convention and met loads of really nice people. Just to add abit of spice to the music, also appearing were Buzzcocks (OK) and Dreadzone. Dreadzone played a set on Saturday afternoon. Described on Wikipedia as an eclectic fusion of dub, reggae, techno, trance, and folk they took the place by storm with a large proportion of the crowd up and jumping. A storming set!!!!!
As usual the crowd ranged in age from 0-110, the beer and food were both excellent and the music fab. However the weather was, unlike last year, beautiful. A far-out experience!
Even the festival pratts couldn't spoil it, and so, to the idiot who got a bit stroppy when my wife (pictured above) got a bit upset at having fag ash flicked on her (bare) knee, to the stupid bitch who thought we were trying to push into the food queue and to the even stupider bitch who ignored about 30 people waiting for a pee and just marched straight into the cubicle in front of me I'd just like to say that even you couldn't come near to spoiling the weekend. Love & peace!
Back to work at the webface now.

Pause for Holidays

Following on from my last post, Cagliari lost 2-0 away at Sampdoria on Wednesday
However tomorrow my two sons and I and my grandson are going to Anfield to watch Liverpool v Atletico Madrid in a pre-season friendly. We hope to run our eyes over Alberto Aquilani, our new signing,(I hope) as well. It'll be Nick's first game and we're on the Kop. Should be ace.

On Sunday the wife and I are going down to the Cotswolds for a few days and then becoming ageing hippies in order to attend Fairport's Cropredy Convention. So this will be the last post for a week or so. Keep clicking on the website links while I'm away and keep your fingers crossed for the weather for us. We're under canvas next week so balmy summer evenings would be good.

Walking with Dinosaurs

As a complete change from locks and websites the wife and I took our grandson (age 7) to Walking with Dinosaurs in Manchester yesterday. It was bril. Hugely enjoyable, exciting and educational. I think I almost managed to explain continental drift and plate tectonics to our Nick. Follow this LINK for a lesson.

Still getting hits on the website despite not having the Adwords campaign going and I'm getting some referrals from this blog, which is ace. I can't tell what's happening with the other website because I forgot to put the Analytics tracking code on the pages! Silly me.

Also, I should admit that I manage Cagliari in Champ Manager on line, and last night I won!!!!! I still really need a forward who can score goals though.