St. Patrick's Day!

The St. Patrick's Day celebrations over the weekend reminded me of story my Uncle told me just last year, about when my family were growing up in Ireland.

Back then we had a farm, one of many in the small rural town. While this farm, and others around the area managed OK, one had a particular problem. Whilst all the other farms had excellent land for grazing and planting, this particular one had nothing but rocks.

The family were good people, but there was nothing anyone could do with the farm to make it work. There was just no way turing a profit. Eventually, the farm became run down and the farmer died.

Then someone had an idea. "What can we do with this farm of rocks?" - Sell them!

And they did.

And this simple idea became the basis for a huge construction company.

I'm not a philosopher in anyway, but even I can get some form of moral from this one. There's opportunity everywhere, you just need to look around for it.

On the subject of the Arts

I now have my own personal website displaying my abstract paintings. These are inspired by nature and landscapes, and a desire to portray the beauty of nature in its most simplistic, colourful form.

The website also includes work by my mother who paints more traditional watercolour paintings.

Take a visit if you get the chance, http://www.thestonewalkgallery.co.uk

Vicki

How much is your website worth?

Here's a fun tool that I came across last week - http://www.dnscoop.com/

Enter your url and it'll work out the value of your website by looking up various factors; age, inbound links, etc. Don't know how realistic the actual values are but it's a fun way to compare sites. Oh, and before you look up www.antika.co.uk it's currently only 490 bucks! Do we have an offer for 500...?

Vix Poem

Odd. While setting up this blog it turns out we created one way back in 2001 and never used it. Even stranger is that the only real post was this beautiful poem that Vicki wrote.

jump now
grab the opportunity
poise yourself
ignore the scrutiny

touch your senses
choke on happiness
it can last forever
accept no less

Lovely isn't it?

Welcome to what will hopefully become a fun addition to the antika website. Here's where we plan on adding bits that don't really fit with the rest of the 'corporate' site. So be prepared stuff that makes us laugh, maybe some gossip and perhaps even some sensible design and development advice.

Stay tuned....