Entering smug mode.....

[simon the viking]

The purchase of the wheels has been agreed by swmbo as long as I buy her a bottle of wine out of it ........................ fine by me I can cope with that..... I think she thought about suggesting another use for it ...... but saw sense just in time

 

[jhawk]

Cheers.... further details are in post 8 and 10... I think its going to be the back page article in July's issue..... good luck with your writing as well I'm just happy to be paid anything! (and obtain a nice new set of wheels guilt free)

Ah yes, I'll be paid shortly for some work that I'm doing for clients. Us freelancers... it's a hard life!

Time for me to get riding!

 

[simon the viking]

Ah yes, I'll be paid shortly for some work that I'm doing for clients. Us freelancers... it's a hard life!

Time for me to get riding!

I'd love to make money from my writing....but I can't imagine it replacing the 'day' job but as I have said I've had a couple of short plays produced in the past and the feeling of seeing actors perform your work is indescribable and for them to shake your hand afterwards saying they loved performing it is fantastic ( I did wonder if I could shout diva style "do you know who I am?" at the interval to get served quicker at the bar) but cold hard cash is much better

 

[DaveReading]

but until now payment has alluded me.

Maybe you should have been targeting publications that don't mind words being misused.

Joking aside, congratulations on your commission.

 

[vernon]

Back in 1998 I created an educational web site that won the Microsoft Road Ahead Prize for the UK. I was flown out to Lisbon to collect the £10,000 cheque from Bill Gates in person at Expo 98.

My school's management team tried to annex the money to spend it as it saw fit after electing themselves to membership of the creative team. They subsequently entered me for every subsequent educational web site competition failing to acknowledge that I'd put four month's worth of every available bit of free time into creating debugging and honing a web site that worked on every PC based graphical browser and similar amounts of time would be required for success in the other competitions. I withdrew my creative labour and didn't create another web site for twelve years. I was not popular.

 

[simon the viking]

Maybe you should have been targeting publications that don't mind words being misused.

Joking aside, congratulations on your commission.

Well spotted I was wondering who would be the first to notice I did of course mean 'eluded me'.......... in my defence I should have been concentrating on the 'day' job rather than being smug on CC

 

[simon the viking]

Back in 1998 I created an educational web site that won the Microsoft Road Ahead Prize for the UK. I was flown out to Lisbon to collect the £10,000 cheque from Bill Gates in person at Expo 98.

My school's management team tried to annex the money to spend it as it saw fit after electing themselves to membership of the creative team. They subsequently entered me for every subsequent educational web site competition failing to acknowledge that I'd put four month's worth of every available bit of free time into creating debugging and honing a web site that worked on every PC based graphical browser and similar amounts of time would be required for success in the other competitions. I withdrew my creative labour and didn't create another web site for twelve years. I was not popular.

Can't fault you there Vernon, people think something is easy when they when they watch someone talented do it and think they can take you for granted......

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

Congrats. I'll watch out for you as a friend bought me a subscription to Cycling Active and I really like it

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

Got my mag through the post today. Like your article, well done

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

Well done Si

 

[simon the viking]

Got my mag through the post today. Like your article, well done

Wow didn't realise subscibers got it that much earlier I haven't seen it myself yet (not in the magazine I mean) as its not in shops till next wed but glad you liked it

 

[Booyaa]

Maybe you should have been targeting publications that don't mind words being misused.

Joking aside, congratulations on your commission.

Ha! I was going to mention that too!

Well done Simon, looking forward to getting a copy and having a read.

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

Wow didn't realise subscibers got it that much earlier I haven't seen it myself yet (not in the magazine I mean) as its not in shops till next wed but glad you liked it

Want me to scan it in?

 

[simon the viking]

Want me to scan it in?

Sending you a pm.....

 

[Phoenix Lincs]