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A Very Busy Year

Picture of Mark and Anu on their wedding day

First of all I must apologize for not updating this blog in a while. There's been three reasons mainly. My wife and I, this year, have been very busy. We've sold our flat, our first rung on the property ladder in favour of buying our first house. It's a lovely Victorian terrace which is about 100 years old. It's lovely owning a period property in such a historic town but over the 100 years or so that this house has been standing it's accrued it's own set of problems. So, my first reason for not updating the blog in a while is that I've been busy nursing our geriatric house.

My second reason for not updating the blog in a while is that my wife and I weren't husband and wife until November 17th 2007 so the past year has been busy preparing and organising everything for that day. Photos will be coming soon but there's just so many to get through that it's taking us ages to find the time to go through them in the first place to decide which ones to use and which to leave on the DVDs but we're getting there. For that very reason the wedding blog that I set up has suffered as well as I never knew just how much stuff there was to organise. Now, however, I'm a fully fledged wedding planner though Nu (my wife) and her mum did most of the work! When the photos are online I'll update this post with the location of the photos.

The last reason is more of a consequence of the last two but is worth noting. Because of the house move and wedding I decided not to accept anymore work as I was already up to my eyes in Skill Swap Shop work from the wedding. Now, however, it's a new year and with the house move and wedding behind me I'm ready and raring to go with new work. So, my last reason for not updating the blog is that I've not been doing any work. For more information about me and my work and what I can do for you, please have a look through Clear January and get in touch with me with your requirements so we can talk them through.

Labels: house, wedding, work

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Skill Swap Shop

Sunday morning, tired and with lots of housework to do I sat down to get out Nu (my girlfriend/business partner) and I's new venture Skill Swap Shop up and running. The key to this project was to be the word flashy so surprise surprise I did it all in Flash. The idea behind the project is to pay for our wedding a different way as we realised that we don’t have a lot of money but we do have years of experience in our chosen fields.

As the new website says, I'm a digital designer of 7 years. I specialise in creating user friendly, accessible websites that not only look great, they feel great to use as well. Over the years I've created loads of CD-ROMs, animations, presentations, banners, rolling demos, static websites and ecommerce solutions. Anything digital - I can do and do well. I've worked with clients such as O2, Honda, Tefal, Carlsberg, HSBC, The Royal of Scotland, Reed, Johnson & Johnson, Centrica, Honeywell, Regus and Marriott.

Nu is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, helping a number of areas. If you're an excellent photographer who wants more confidence in stressful situations, or you have a child about to go through their GCSE's who needs help with focus, revision and concentration, hypnotherapy is an excellent tool. There are many more area's that hypnotherapy can help with and if there's a specific issue you'd like to discuss then Nu would be happy to speak to you in person.

So if you might have something to offer us in exchange for our services, or even if you don't but would still like to get a new website or hypnotherapy session, then please get in touch.

Labels: code, design, portfolio, skill swap shop, wedding