beewee.org.uk - Rob's miscellanea

Despite the online Enquiry form having an input control I'm getting a lot of dubious messages, mainly from Russian addresses. 

It's difficult to stop them so I have disabled the form pro tem - to make contact just email   

webmaster   AT  beewee.org.uk  

making sure you give your name, location and message.

In the meantime I'll try and work out how to improve the "intruder control" to get it back online.

HOLDING PAGE AS BEEWEE CONTENT IS ADDED

- the sub-menu pages have content - the intro will be here

The list here, in "as added to" order is simply links (they open in a new window) to stuff that I've found interesting, informative, amusing or just worth listing. 
There is a brief  caption for each one with the date it was added, with most recent first.

Ian Visits - Things to do and what's on in London.  Daily posts with a mix of interesting stuff, an index of museums and a schedule of day-by-day anniversaries. 7 January 2022  https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/

Museum of Brands in London - A nostalgic journey through 200 years of social change, culture and lifestyle. An exciting new way of looking at history through the things that generations of families have thrown away, a journey back through the memories of your childhood, all brought back to life again in the Time Tunnel – a fascinating insight into how we have lived since Victorian times. 13 October 2021
https://museumofbrands.com/

Online Converter - for a wide range of file formats and units of measurement, this is a versatile and multipurpose converter, a handy tool for your work and personal life.  12 September 2021
https://www.onlineconverter.com/

Text to speech converter- an online service that converts text to the spoken word (and can then be saved as a sound file)  Remarkably good although it does a few odd things like saying "forward slash" when encountering, e.g. on/or.  5 July 2021
https://ttsreader.com/

Look & Learn Image Archive - one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of historical pictures and photos. 12 June 2021
https://www.lookandlearn.com/index.php

Retro to Go - a sub-site of Wow Haus featuring retro designs of a variety of items.  16 April 2021
https://www.retrotogo.com/

The Modern House - this is actually an Estate Agent that markets modern houses that are usually architecturally stunning (you'll need to dig around in the site for current and past properties, it's fascinating).  9 April 2021
https://www.themodernhouse.com/

The Rudiments Of Wisdom - encyclopaedia by Tim Hunkin. Thousands of cartoons covering almost everything there is to know!   18 March 2021
https://www.rudimentsofwisdom.com/

Wow Haus - the home of hip houses and stylish interiors - interesting architecture with some Bauhaus influence.  10 March 2021
https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/

Dilbert - daily cartoon strip with a satirical look at corporate life - the cartoonist, Scott Adams, worked at AT&T . . . having also worked for AT&T the funny side is reality!  3 March 2021
https://dilbert.com/

Diamond Geezer - Life viewed from London E3 - (that's Bow) - again London-centric, with a daily post on all sorts of things and comments. 16 February 2021
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/
ADDENDUM - there is a massive collection of interesting photographs, and not just London, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/dgeezer

Spitalfields Life - having Huguenot ancestry (on my father's side) I follow a daily email about Spitalfields (where they settled when they fled from France in the late 17C) - interesting old photographs and prints, then and now etc.  8 February 2021
https://spitalfieldslife.com/

Lumberjocks - a North American site, a bit niche but an amazing array of projects that woodworkers have created - and pictures of the members (a lot of beards and trucker caps!) and their workshops. 26 January 2021
https://www.lumberjocks.com

The links will always be "work safe" - and if any are broken/discontinued please let me know through the Contact form.

I'm Rob and I wanted an outlet to express myself . . .                 

The main Cycle : End-to-End website has lots of resources and Journals - this part of the site is more about me and some of my interests . . . inevitably there will be some overlap and duplication with the main site.

Over the years I've had a number of interests: cycling in my early years through playing with Land Rovers, dabbling with antique country furniture, renovating old houses . . . back to cycling - and more recently back to woodwork.

I had also retired from work* a couple of times but for three years from mid-2016 until the end of 2019 managed a local bike shop

I'm now retired, again - but do undertake some bicycle servicing and repairs as well as woodwork projects and making some rustic products from recycled timber.

* mainly in sales and marketing, initially in the printing industry, then the use of IT in financial services before my own business as a Marketing Consultant and Interim Managing Director helping businesses in several industrial & retail sectors.

The old Beewee site was migrated to new software etc. in October 2020 with some re-working of the content and structure - that is now almost complete but I will be adding more content ongoing.

You may have found your way here from the main Cycle : End-to-End website -  www.cycle-endtoend.org.uk - lots of resources and inspiration for the BIG ride!

If you get taken back to the Cycle : End-to-End website Home page - The other place bear icon on the bottom right will always take you to the Beewee Home page.  A very small number of pages are Private and will require an ID & PW for access - these are reserved for family and friends etc.

My other website, also hosted here is  www.bicyclerepairmanservices.co.uk