Recently I’ve had a number of comments which seem genuine but when I click on the link given, it goes to some sort of advertising site. I would just like to say that if you leave a comment with a link to a site like this, the comment will be marked as spam, whether it seems genuine or not. So if you do have a site like this but wish to leave a comment, please leave the url field blank. Everyone who comments for the first time automatically goes to moderation so it will only get through if I don’t judge it as spam.

If you have tried to leave a comment in the past and had problems or wonder why it hasn’t appeared, do email me at liz @ lizplummer.com.

I have also decided not to keep up my Etsy shop so if you go there you’ll find it all blank and bare, but I will keep it there for a while in case I ever decide to open it again.  In the meantime, I hope to put my artwork and my gocco printed moleskine notebooks up on my website and have spent this afternoon putting lots of photos with dimensions and titles, etc, up on my Facebook page.

I’ve been feeling a bit blocked with regard to my art recently, which is probably why I haven’t been feeling like writing about it!  Though I have kept up with my sketchbooks so will put up some photos when I have taken some.   I have been doing lots of monotonous but strangely addictive transcribing of Staffordshire burials for Freereg, which aims to put as many parish register entries as possible up on line freely available.  Sometimes the parish priests left little comments such as ‘drowned when stealing turnips on the sabbath’, which enlivens the process for me a bit!

A few people have asked about using WordPress for blogging, so I thought that over the next few months I would do a series of step by step tutorials for anyone who is thinking of trying it out. 

And I’m definitely going to get some hens in the near future, so I’ll be reviewing the hen book and no doubt posting lots of pics!!

Meanwhile, I’ll brighten up this post with a bit of local graffiti:

In the meantime, apologies if anything seems to get a bit chaotic – it’ll be sorted out soon, I promise!

Cardiff’s new shopping centre.

On a ‘blog admin’ note, because of all the spam I’ve been getting recently and comments from people who are obviously advertising financial products and the like, I’ve turned off comments on posts over 60 days old. I don’t think this will cause any problems for genuine commentors, but feel free to leave a comment on one of the more recent posts!