Gastronomically Terrific

Just a quick non PALS-related post to say that Dan has started a new blog -with some input from me! Titled Gastronomically Terrific, it's about our experiences cooking new things - anything from starters to mains to some (often very tasty) puddings and cakes!

We started the blog in December 2009, so unsurprisingly it starts with Christmas cake. I've put a link in the side bar on this blog, or just click here to look at the blog!

Avatar issues

Not sure what was happening here... I've been having problems getting my Avatar to show up on this blog, although it looked fine on the Yahoo! site, and I was able to update it.

Anyway, following the good-old standard IT advice, I did the equivalent of turning it off and on again (i.e. deleting the HTML and replacing it with what was on the Yahoo site), and that seemed to do the trick. Not sure if Yahoo had updated the HTML, because it did look a little different. Either way, it now seems to be working again and hopefully will continue to do so!

Issue 34 nearly ready

Just a quick update to say that I've managed to finish writing Issue 34 - a month early! I've spent this morning learning about the Songkran Festival in Thailand, something I knew very little about before this morning. So it's been educational! I'll upload the issue towards the end of February, so it'll be nice to have a couple of weeks break from working on the newsletter. Not sure how often that means this blog will get updated, but if I have any news it will make it's way onto here!

Being productive

I've actually had quite a productive PALS-related week this week.

First off, thanks to Tracy for sending me a whole range of new Creature Features, and a Special article on her holiday to Lincoln last year. This is great news as I (still) haven't had many responses to the questions in Issue 33 of PALS, so at least it gives me an idea of how to continue with the newsletters in the future! More on that in Issue 35.

Other than that, I got a little carried away with writing up Issue 34 and have now managed to almost complete it - there's only one page left to write. Thanks to Tamara for that as she did all the work writing the article about her holiday and providing me with plenty of pics!

All this means the next issue is actually ready almost a month early - but at least it means if I end up being horribly busy in February it won't matter!

Issue 34 begun

I know I haven't posted on this blog for some time now (nearly an entire month, in fact) but, well, I've been busy! First there was Christmas, then there was New Years, then I left my old job, and then I started my new job 2 days later... so that meant that I've had no time to work on PALS, let alone update my blog - meaning that even if I had been writing my blog, I would have had very little to say!

However, now I've been in my new job for a week, am on my first weekend, and have finally made a start on Issue 34 of PALS. This will be another Special, this time on a penpal's holiday to Croatia back in summer 2008. It's taken me some time to get around to making this into a Special as I've had so many other Specials to add, but I'm finally able to!

I've not yet had many responses to the queries in Issues 33, so if you've yet to answer the questions on pages 3 and 4, please take a minute to do so. All you need to do is click a button and press submit! I'll have a bit more of a think about how future issues are going to look once I've (hopefully) received a few more responses, and when I come to writing Issue 35 in March. That issue will include survey results, if I have enough.

Well, it being midnight I should probably go and get some sleep... but I'll do my best to update this blog a little more regularly, and keep working on Issue 34!