Back to Work…

Yes, both of us are hard at work on our computers. B is laying out the Elfin Desk Diary for 2006. He thought he had done it all, and sent off the proofs to Caroline – who discovered that he had used the 2005 Diary data for most of it! So he’s having to redo everything from April 2006 onwards, just as we are gearing up to start organising the Lammas Camp. He’s not happy.
And I have reports to write, and a magazine to pull together, and letters to write, and a mailing list to organise; not to mention that it looks like I’m doing a website for Apra Books. It might take quite a lot of work – they want something that they can update themselves and which might be integrated with the specialist booklisting software they use.
They are such a small outfit – they haven’t even got a shop and they only do second-hand books – that I feel rather embarrassed at quoting them a price, even one that’s way below what I’d charge an ordinary business for.
Luckily, there isn’t any hurry for it – I had a long chat with the owner, Syd, last night, and he said they’d been waiting years for the opportunity to set up a website, so a couple more months won’t make any difference.

And I’m setting up an order page on here for my astrology reports – I’ve got myself a Paypal account, and I will be able to email charts and reports to customers. However, customomising the PayPay order page is proving a problem. I’ve tried to download their how-to manual, but it’s 12meg and will take all night to squeeze down our dial-up line – and that’s assuming the line won’t disconnect after an hour, like it usually does.

So, back to work.