TheGreek

We've a full house here with our new puppy, (she's currently 5 months) and our 3 year old Cockapoo. 

Fingers crossed she's got a new home by Christmas! 

I think we may have a home for Thea's sister Duchess. Neighbour's boyfriend, John,  had to leave his Staffie X with his parents when he moved out so he is looking for a new dog.

We already walk with his partner, Naz, and her dog, Meeko so having Thea's sister nearby will be a bonus.

Duchess, featuring a new name, Shiva, now with neighbours. Unclear if she has ever been walked - she wanted to be carried to the park and didn't know how to play with the other dogs.

Give it a week and we'll probably see a completely different dog.

Forgot to wish you a happy birthday on the day Mick. Hope it was a good one. Best.

Chords on a bass - have you taken leave of your senses man?

I bought a 6er....chords are one of the suggestions for progressing my playing.

Seen a few YT videos where they sound good.

Darn - I missed that; I had one in my case in the same room as you!

Hopefully on the heavily-armoured Papal Lambretta?

Doing doughnuts in the Piazza San Pietro, drifting around the Colosseum. 

What a find!! 2 x 10 combo for peanuts. Stockport anyone?? Owner selling cos it's too loud 😂👍

If it wasn't collection only I would have kept it to myself.

Bargain for somebody hopefully.

So pleased to hear this Mick, great news

Great to hear this. Fab news  

Great news Mick! You’ll get a good night sleep tonight then 😁

Congratulations!

I'd buy one, BASSCHAT, make it so.

Yep. Could be a money pit

As always; it depends on requirements. If they want a simple enough blog then WordPress is fine. It won't take much to get up to speed either. The main limitation is that an install of WordPress just gets you a framework and a rather limited one at that. The money pit concern is valid. WordPress code might be free but they do need to host the site somewhere reliable and if they want to start doing fancy stuff, selling stuff etc. then they either need to pay for plugins or learn to code.

One suggestion above was Squarespace but running a shop seems to cost £17 a month. They'd need to weigh up that cost against the cost of hosting the website with a hosting company (probably around £80 - £100 per year inc. VAT) and running something like WooCommerce on WordPress (free but painful and likely to suck up time). £17 per month might not sound so expensive by the time they factor in what it provides (I've never used Squarespace or Wix so can't comment). 

Vulnerabilities exist in any system; if you keep WordPress up to date then I don't think it is any more or less secure than other options. The plugins are where I'd be most concerned in terms of vulnerabilities especially if you start to choose less known developers from exotic destinations. 

I don't have time to get involved in any project but am happy to help in terms of a discussion \ bouncing some ideas as I run a couple of WordPress sites (one for a charity and one for the wife). 

Until a list of requirements are known , it’s difficult to know what to suggest.
 

If it’s an online shop there are quite a

lot of options, though all have pros and cons. I use OpenCart for my online shop , but I host it on a virtual private server. OC is free but it's a lot of work. 

Perhaps the person wants a blog, lots of options there. 

Could be they need a simple website for their band and booking tickets?

There appear to be an awful.lot of experience offered here but until we know the person wants, it's difficult to recommend a solution. 

Rob

Bit steep I'd say unless it's absolutely mint with an original case blah blah.. , mine was about 600 squid, circa 18 months ago. 

Saw that and he's well over priced it imo, he's also got another bass for sale that is a couple of hundred quid over value so could just be chancing his arm? Just to put in context, there's one on FB in Lancaster for sale for £450, which is v cheap and wouldn't be for sale if I was nearer it 😃

Yes, for two days, but it doesn't last until noon as the temperatures  are between 0 and 5... 

We had a lickle tickle's worth last night but its barely worth mentioning.  It was patchy frost for the most part 'round Derby.

Did you get any snow in the end?

Yep - second snowfall of the season up here above Halifax - I do live at 1,000 ft though so we've had snow 3ft deep in the garden in May before...

I think you'd have been called The First Ones if this was Babylon 5.

Bassosaurs.

Same sort of story here Mick, had only owned a few basses til Basschat, now I think I`ve owned them all!

Shame secondhand prices are bonkers though...

I dunno ... £17k for a Wal seems perfectly fair to me. 

Stop looking @TheGreek stop looking.....
Mind you, I think I'll take a quick peek now  

Link says currently unavailable and one 1* out of 5 review, lol!

Oh yes there is.

5. What the hell is a 'blessed' instrument? Did the pope spray it with water or something?

point 5 for @Happy Jack "It's been around unsold at that price for a while"

nicely links point 4 and 6 I think 

oh balls. @Rich got there first. 
I like the colour so can rich's 5 be 2. 

And then 7 is "some people would say it's a revolting colour"

I haven’t seen a Cash Converts shop open since BC. (Before Covid)