August 11, 2013

Menston village and other website have kept me absent

Posted by grumpytyke under Blogging, Bradford, Uncategorized, Wordpress, Yorkshire, Yorkshire villages | Tags: , , , , , , |
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Menston and Wilberforce have kept me away; many apologies for the long absence. First of all I was busy night and day (literally) getting a much-needed completely new website to its Beta form for the charity (Wilberforce Trust) for which I work, so it could be viewed by all the 70 or so staff for their feedback by the time I return from annual leave in early September. I’ll take into account the feedback then it can go live, hopefully that month. It’s a WordPress.org site so a lot more work than these wonderful free ‘wordpress.com’ sites. 

Menston village blog; screenshot with first post

Top of the new Menston village blog showing the first post

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February 1, 2013

Blogging, Facebook and Twitter – personal and ‘business’

Posted by grumpytyke under Communications, Disability, Promotion, Uncategorized, Visual impairment, Wordpress | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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I’ve been completely hooked by blogging but I’ve never felt the urge to create a Facebook page and, although I have a Twitter account, the only thing that is tweeted, automatically, is a new post here.

As far as Facebook is concerned, I have a strong aversion to it – born of my wife’s announcements like “?? says she’s sitting in ?? celebrity restaurant drinking her seventh vodka and ?? (celebrity chef) has just spoken to her” and then shows me a picture of said ?? obviously very drunk in said restaurant. Who cares? (more…)