Acronyms are great when they come in letters 3. There’s easy one’s like ICL, IBM, BBC My job means that I learn new ones …SEM, SEO there surely ain’t a TLA that I don’t think I know.
Apostrophes
It s a cryin shame.
It s really not that fair.
I ve this need for apostrophes,
but there isn t one to spare.
Top 10 WordPress Misconceptions
Extensive research has allowed me to produce the Top 10 misconceptions about WordPress.
- Just for blogs
- Insecure
- Poor code since it’s free
- wordpress.com vs .org
- All look the same
- ecommerce
- No future
- Limited support
- For beginners
- Not scaleable
Please share wisely.
My Favourite Block – annotated
My Favourite Block
I wrote this poem, entitled “My Favourite Block”, for a lightning talk that I prepared for the February 2019 WordPress Portsmouth Meetup.
Welcome to Isla Ruby Cowe

Early on the 6th of March Graeme called to say Louise's baby daughter Had just popped out to play Isla is a Scottish name two river's that doth flow and Ruby is a little gem a fact I'm sure you know In ten mins time we must go to a meeting we can't miss a wel-com-ing to the Cowe clan of Ava's little sis Herb Miller, 6th March 2018
Hello I’m Marmalade
Marmalade the cat. [Read more…]
Disappeared without a trace
Just recently something went terribly wrong and I lost some recently made source code updates that, even though they’d been checked into version control had not been pushed anywhere. So there was no backup. It’s my own stupid fault; I let WordPress make an update that it shouldn’t have. [Read more…]
Hello I’m Bramble
Bramble the cat [Read more…]
Be my valentine
A belated Valentine’s day message. [Read more…]