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To Breixt or not to Brexit?

8/6/2016

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I have been agonising long and hard over this. I have not seen a commentator whose opinion I trust, or any informative impartial evidence and I guess that puts me in the vast majority.

Where does that leave us? At the mercy of the opinion makers who run our popular press, I guess?  A depressing thought....

For me, Cameron blew his immediate opportuniity to put the issue to bed by failing, in the eyes of the British public, to renegotiate our current terms of membership.

My personal feeling is that we need to take a massively wider view on the subject and not get bogged down in the details of immigration, NHS, jobs, freedom of movement etc.  Once we are out, we are out for good. Period (to use the American vernacular).

If we stay in (as the Scotts chose to do with the UK), we retain the opportunity to negotiate further reform from within, with the stick of potentially another reforendum to beat our European comerades with.

For the life of me, I cannot understand why Cameron has not taken this tack in his 'Remain' strategy.  Probably because that  would mean admitting failure at the renegotiation and admissions of any description are not things that potiticians are known for.

For me it is a case of evolution not revolition. I'm with wee Jimmy Cranky; I'm in. For now...



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Website Design - It's not black magic!

8/6/2016

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We agonised long and hard about the re-design and in the end, we realised that we had been looking at things completely arse-about-face.

The real leg work in developing websites is not making things look pretty, load correctly, SEO black magic, link properly etc but in content creation.  This means either educating you web designer deeply in all aspects of your business or generating the content yourself for him to format. In both scenarios you end up with a major investment in time and money.

After flirting with 3, I must say, well respected web design companies, we decided to use a web based platform and create ourselves. We chose Weebly because of it's e-commerce platform capability but others are good eg Wix.

Professional web designers may poo-poo what we have done, but for a relatively small business with simple requirements and a need to communicate quickly and economically, it seemed the perfect solution.

It even has blog capability, as you can witness from this post, which was typed on my phone and automatically embedded into our website.

Don't you love it when things just work...
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