Month: July 2001

Frisbee flinging in Priory Park yesterday with Matt and Ian (good muscles on my throwing arm now, but aim not improving), followed by a quick beer, chinese food, a snooze and then more beer with Ian, Matt, Brenda and Greg whilst listening to Paul F and the band in the Nags. Then crawled home and fell into a deep sleep. Still exhausted this morning though.

Well, the Party in the Park was excellent. Nobody so far has been brave enough to attempt to list everyone who was there, but it was certainly the biggest turnout at any blogging event I have attended so far. But, the following were in evidence (deep breath and lots of link hunting): Elaine, Meg, Jen, Bella, Rachel, Katy, Meghan, Heather, Robyn, Bexta, Mo, Paul, Paul, Paul, Tom, Tom, Nick, Nick, Drew, Rodney, Davo, Cal, Luke, Ian, Dan, Ken, Mark, Chris, Mike, Martin … there definitely were others – if I have missed you out, please accept my apologies and mail me.
Lots of photos were taken by various people. Links here as soon as they are posted.
UPDATE: pics now available at Nick’s site. In this picture, it looks like I’m about to give Meg a girly backhand slap across the face. I’d like to point out to readers that I did not, in fact, slap Meg. Nor did I beat up any small children. Talk about misrepresentation!
FURTHER UPDATE: more pictures at Meg’s site – utter class – I love this picture. Elaine has also posted some great pictures here.

Right, time to pack my bags, load up the camel train, and head off to London for the Party in the Park. The original plan to meet up with my cousin Gemma for lunch beforehand has been abandoned because Gem is actually down here this weekend to see her mum – another planning masterstroke! oh well – we’ve promised each other that we will meet up soon and compare notes on our love lives (which is always good for a laugh or two!).
Beer last night with Paul F. Brenda and Greg made a fleeting visit. Simone and Bek were out too. Strange sort of night – W2 was very quiet. I came home early, suffering from horrid toothache (a wisdom tooth, I hope), a blinding headache and chronic tiredness. I feel a lot better for a good night’s sleep (the toothache has eased a little too) and also for getting a couple of text messages (they work wonders).

What the hell is going on at Cal’s poll?? I’ve rocketed up into fourth place in no time at all. I’m wondering if there is a conspiracy.

I shall be in Priory Park this evening, from around 6.15 or 6.30, conducting flight testing of the new frisbee. If anyone feels like helping, watching or laughing at my incompetence with the flying disc, then please come along.

And the new frisbee has arrived. It’s…um…black and …um…shit-hot. It will make its debut at the Party in the Park. Are you going?

Mo reveals that he always carries a complete set of waterproof clothing with him at all times. This explains lots of things.

Will I ever learn?
Doubt it, and it’s much much more fun that way.

So it’s started – with the forthcoming launch of the .biz top level domains, web hosting companies are clamouring for my business, by phone, letter, email, spam. They all want me to launch croftway.biz because it’ll make my website “much easier to find”. Bollocks. I chose a .co.uk address deliberately for work (and for this site too) because I wanted to highlight the fact that we are a British company, mainly serving customers in the UK. We don’t supply plants to customers outside the EU (due to plant health restrictions) – I didn’t want a .com address because it would lead to too many enquiries from American and other customers who we would not be able to serve. The same holds true for .biz. What’s more, customers search for our site by looking on search engines for our name or our products. And it is the body of the URL that points up your business – would bbc.com work any better than bbc.co.uk? Doubt it.

Beer tonight with Paul F, Paul S (ever so briefly), Phil, Gary, Joel, Claudette, Sal and Ginny, who was working her very last night behind the bar in W2 – we’ll miss her. Good luck with your new job!