Whilst I’m old enough to be a Grandma, I don’t yet have any grandchildren and I’m honestly not worried about that fact. Does that make me strange? According to some of my friends and work colleagues yes.
Yet I am cherishing my life of freedom and as far as I can see grandchildren have the potential to interfere with that big time. (more…)
We’re Carol and Sue and we’ve been virtual friends for nearly 10 years. We often say we are twins separated by 10 years and 100 miles, although politically we may not be quite the same eh Carol?
We were Guides for About.com in 2001 and then ran a successful website business together so we get along well, and recently we decided to bring together our musings and rants about everyday life. Not being ‘girly’ types we get annoyed by all sorts of things and we hope your find our musings either:
Whatever – please feel free to comment. We look forward to reading them.
Corrugated cardboard and some silver and/or gold spray paint together with beads, glitter and ribbon can make striking and original decorations for your Christmas tree. (more…)
Gingerbread Christmas Tree
Traditionally, this recipe is made into gingerbread men but you can use different shaped cookie cutters to make it into stars, Christmas trees or other shapes. Before cooking, remember to pierce a hole at the top of each one so you can thread ribbon or strong coloured thread through them to hang on the Christmas tree. Makes 25 cookies. (more…)
Swansea is second largest city in Wales. Although the city name appears to be of Viking origin, no evidence exists of any settlement until the 11th century when the Normans built a castle later destroyed by Owen Glendower. The major attraction is the beautiful Gower Peninsula just to the west of the city centre.
We’ve all seen the sites that make you think “Uh oh, amateur hour”. It’s easy for beginners to make some basic mistakes that give their sites an amateurish look. So how do you avoid giving that impression with your first website? Here are 20 tips to help you.
1. Look at lots of good and bad sites. Try to list what makes them look good or bad.
2. Keep your pages simple. Look at the way good magazines layout their pages.
Adding pictures and other graphics can lift your pages, add colour and life as well as make them easier to read. They can give novices to building webpages a real headache, though. Here is a simple guide.
The very first step to adding pictures is to make them the correct size for the space on your webpage. This means don’t just click on the picture in your html editor and push it to the right size because doing that doesn’t reduce the file size. If you do that and have a jpg that is 2mb, for example, even though the picture looks smaller, the file size will still be 2mb.
More accidents, we are told, happen in the home than elsewhere. There are ways to minimise the chances of accidents occurring – follow these safety tips and make your home safer. (more…)
