Working for the sort, and size, of organisation that I do, it is not uncommon to get strings of strange, meaningless and misdirected emails. This is today's offering.

'Would the owner of a ladies silver bicycle, fitted with a pink and black child seat, parked near the rear of the canteen, please move it as soon as possible? They have padlocked it to ( Read more... )

As many of you know, I've been busy on a project at work to rewrite and compile all the web content for the Directorate I work for. That amounts to around about a third of a seriously large website. This is because there will soon be a new council website and this was a great chance to get it right from the start. My involvement began back in the ( Read more... )

I'm feeling quite proud of myself. I've just got out of a high level meeting of senior managers from the Community Directorate of the County Council. We were discussing a new Cultural Position Statement for Somerset and I had been given the job of producing a mock-up of it. The plan was to have a rough idea of what was going where in the ( Read more... )

Yet again I have to apologise for not being around much lately. It's an easy excuse to say that I have been really busy, but it also happens to be true.

I'll just give you a bit of background. For almost two years I have worked as part of a team of two people providing information for the public on a whole range of different issues for Somerset ( Read more... )

I realise that this is probably of no interest to anyone out there, but I am feeling really pleased with myself because I have finished a job at work that has taken a lot of my time. I have built a whole section of the council's website dealing with Information for Carers. It replaces a mish-mash of unrelated pages, most of which just didn't work ( Read more... )