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Decided to get rid of the gallery pages as they aren’t interesting and I can be bothered updating them. Decided to update the Cello Arrangements page with even more arrangements. Did both these things.

Airedale – Somewhat expensive, not well lit. Gets rather boring after second or third hour. Otley – Well priced (just £1/hour) and pretty well lit. The excitement still palls after the second hour but the staff are nicer.

Decided that the last thing that this site needs is a blog. Realised that it already had one. I rest my case.

Realised that the web site is over 20 years old and it still hasn’t helped me go viral. Come to the conclusion that going viral probably now has a different meaning in 2020 and that I don’t want to go. Might go fungal instead, but don’t think I can get ointment for it. Decided to…

Done stuff. Don’t like the colour of the site title but can’t find another one that shows up. Does the site need a title? Do I need a site? Do I care? No.

Scrapped my WordPress site temporarily and resurrect this one. Wondered what version 2 of July 2018 will be like.

What I was I doing to the site. I can’t remember but I’m sure it was very interesting or not.

Totally restructured the site, added new pages, moved and renamed old pages, shuffled content around, got totally lost, panicked, sorted it out all out, now happy again.

A jaunt around the Midlands, visiting Warwick Castle (horribly touristy), Twycross Zoo and Kenilworth Castle (much better!) with new photos added around the album if there was one.

A visit to the Prescott Hill vintage hill climb has resulted in a new section in the gallery which nobody can find.

‘1968 And All That’ event at the National Railway Museum, so some more pictures have turned up in the ‘Steam’ section of the gallery. Or they would if there was a gallery and I’d posted them there.

We have a new four-legged member of the family; a grey kitten called Grace who now has her own area in the album which no longer exists as of some date in the future  (how do I know?).

The last day of the holiday (boo-hoo). A quick trip to the beach at Greve de Lecq in the morning and just a couple of photos for today; one of a nice print in the cottage (artist Tim Thompson, but I can’t find the name of it).

Off to Jersey Zoo, or ‘Durrell’ as it is now called, after its founder; Gerald Durrell. I can’t say I like the new name, but I still took lots of photos, the best of which are to be found in today’s gallery update. Went to the beach at St. Brelades in the evening, just to…

Took the ferry to Guernsey today. Two of us were sick and I wished I’d walked. On arrival, I was interviewed by a journalist from the local press – I initially thought that he must have heard about this web site, but it turned out that he was looking for a story about the ferry…

Continued the continuation by adding pictures from the maritime museum in St. Helier. We went to a vineyard and a pottery as well, but I was too busy carrying Lois’s shopping to take any pictures. Contributions to the J. M. Skilleter Wallet Restoration Fund are urgently required and will be gratefully received.

Continued the vanity insanity by adding today’s collection of pictures from Mount Orgueil Castle.

In a totally pointless and probably futile exercise driven only by withdrawal symptoms from my regular games of Scrabble and a feeling of ‘well, why not?’ (the answers to which were very carefully ignored), I’ve decided to replace usual handing around of 100+ boring photographs to people who weren’t interested after photo number 3 with…

Another little update with a few new photographic imagary including one one or two of me on the Royal Scot many, many years ago (ye gods, ’twas over a quarter of century ago!). See the ‘Butlins’ link on the left for more information! I’ve also stuck another nice picture of the boys on the site…

New album! Bananas????

More photos added. Many more to go….

Finally got around to redesigning the site completely – well, nearly completely…. Got a new recently as well – a dark green Ford Mundano. Boring, but big, safe, reasonably driveable and (hopefully) more reliable than that bl**dy Astra and, for that matter, the previous bl**dy Astra.

Just noticed that I haven’t updated this page for 3 years. Shows how exciting my life is doesn’t it? Zzzzzzzzz………

Someone decided to try and embed their Post Office van in the side of my car as I was driving home tonight. Yes, thanks, I’m uninjured. What? You didn’t ask? What do you mean; you don’t care! Well, really……

Well, I keep saying “I must update the web pages” and then do nothing about it. I haven’t actually done very much this time, but at least it proves that I’m still alive (as far as I know). I managed to resist the temptations of Perl, Java and ECMAscript, much to my sanity’s relief, and…

Ho hum, well I got the pages sorted (or so I thoughted (so says, lapsing into whimsical rhyme for a moment)) only to have someone send me a nice email telling me that some pages had pictures which covered up the text! How is that possible with HTML? Goodness knows, it seems to be something…

Righty-oh then (he says, out of character, but in an attempt to confuse the spellig checker) this thyme, I’m really, really, really going to get around to uploading the latest version of the web site to good old www.skilleter.org. Even though Rollercoaster Tycoon is beckoning at me seductively from it’s CD jewel case, and I…

Bit more work, played around with the design, went to bed. Night-night.

Just updated a few links and spelling mistakes. Nobody has joined the mailing list yet, which would be depressing if it wasn’t for the thought of having to sending things on the list when people did join it!

Well, its the start of the last year of the decade, century and milleni…. mile… melly… minellium, so to celebrate, I’ve bought skilleter.org.uk as a present to myself, and why not!

Just got a new (well, newer) car, so decided that the most logical thing to do was to update the web site. I’m still trying to decide why that was logical, but it hasn’t stopped me from doing it. Robert’s in bed, so this update is all my own work. If nothing else, the speling…

We’ve been travelling around the country a bit recently; we’ve been to the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, Peak Rail in Matlock, Armley Mills in Leeds and we’ve paid a few more visits to the Keighley & Worth Valley line where we saw (but didn’t manage to ride behind) the L.N.E.R. B1 and, just…