One thing I hate are people who are just happy to waste people's time, but can have a devastating impact on lives. My own daughter is one of these, unfortunately. She applied for a University course on Psychology as a mature student and attended an open day creating huge excitement and she couldn't wait to complete the paperwork. She took all the advice she could get and submitted an excellent set of papers, then sat back and waited. With the deadline date of the 17th July fast approaching

Here in the UK we have a good many Victorian era piers at our coastal resorts and over recent years fire has devastated a few. They were, of course, constructed of wood which was the building material of choice in the late 1800's when many of them were first built and they were a wonderful site when visiting the coast. The most recent to be ravaged by fire is at Eastbourne, East Sussex in the south of the UK which was built in 1870 and has stood ever since in all it's glory, a constant remind

I have just had a wonderful and also an awful week-end. Wonderful because it was spent with family and that's always a feel good factor in my book, but awful because on Friday night my internet just went haywire and I haven't been able to connect properly til minutes ago. It's like many things that we take for granted, they are great til you have to do without them. Obviously quite apart from WA, there is e-mails, social media and just generally catching up with events from around the world a

It's a thin line between the two and they are often really just the same. If you are asked to review someones site and there is something not quite right, you have to criticise, but the way to do it that doesn't cause offence is to suggest some alteration or addition that would make it better. You've just changed criticism into advice. Even well intended criticism can upset and the WA community can never be guilty of that as we all try to help one another in a constructive way as I have found

I find it rather amusing how the simple things in life can give so much pleasure. For instance yesterday I was merely trying to put a banner on to my home page and eventually succeeded, only to realise that I wanted it to be in the centre and not to one side. Straight to help then and within literally a couple of minutes I had my answer, (thanks to hippywot), plus some very handy tips for future. To say I was happy when it worked would be an understatement and yet it was such a simple proces