Well, here it is. My very own web site. Well, our very own web site, I suppose, since much of my news is Chas’s news too. It started last summer with throw-away remark to my friend Richard Hayes, no doubt over a pint at the Heathcote Arms during a “dog walk”, that I fancied having a web site to share our news with the family, and maybe use it for the occasional grumble or comment on life. No doubt I was grumbling about Facebook at the time. Incidentally, I know I opened a Facebook “account”, but I have forgotten both my password and “alternative e-mail address”, and so am locked out of my own Facebook page. I am not over concerned about this. I found that the interesting stuff on Facebook was like precious gem stones. Good if I could find them, but I had sift out a lot of waste to discover them.
Now, where was I? Oh yes – Richard browsed the company that hosts his company web site, found that this “Oakstump” address was available, and I purchased it for the princely sum of £3. I did nothing with this for ages, and then Simon suggested that he builds me a web site as a birthday present. And so, after a couple of months of deciding the best lay-out etc, here it is, with some “posts” (as I am told they are called) for the last few days, just to fill the front page. It will not be an entry a day – just if we do something interesting, or more likely for me to grumble.
Welcome to www.oakstump.co.uk. We hope that you will visit it from time to time to see what we have been up to. I hope to use it for sharing family photos as well – photos from Matt and Steven’s birthday bash are in “Our Recent Photos”. We’ll just see how it progresses. And I’ll try to get back onto Facebook so I know what you lot have been up to as well.
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
