Simon Cox
Simon Cox
Simon Cox
Hello – this is my personal website. I bring you a smattering of articles to read, images to soak in while you wander about the web and a few thoughts to ponder on while you drink your tea in the short articles section.
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Work in progress gets out the house Recently I realised that it was five years ago that I had built the baseboard framework after Richard Glover gave me the plans for Whitesands Quay. Yes, I have moved house since and yes I have a lot...
Replacing the chimney pots on the row of cottages Having built the row of cottages kit from Scalescenes I had added small pieces of styrene tube as chimney pots with the intention of painting them terra cotta. However I noticed that the...
Hand-built track and point controls The track work on Whitesands Quay consists of four points providing a runaround and two sidings. This provides enough scope for interesting operations and operating sequences when exhibiting the...
The Neil Sayer Models La Meuse 009 kit This is a special kit as it was presented to me, as a surprise, by the registrar when Paula and I got married. Paula got a ring and I got a La Meuse kit to make our vows on. She isn’t stupid… The...
Using a Scalescenes card kit Originally I had intended to construct the buildings for Whitesands Quay. using Pendon. methods but I really don’t have the hundreds of hours required to find, measure, photograph, draw, emboss, watercolour...
A new small raised bed in the garden to provide fresh produce. Plans In our new home we have a much bigger garden — in fact, it’s a bit daunting, to be honest. Paula would really like to combine a cut flower and vegetable garden so we...
Most UK organisations have ignored the EU directive on cookies The EU Cookie Consent law has been making a lot of waves in the web industry since it was first announced. The UK was given an extended period to implement the law and this...
I have been building a site using the fabulous Perch CMS but discovered that the default upload path for images is inside the perch directory which caused my a bit of concern. Most Perch based sites I have looked at have been happy to...
I spent some of the weekend tidying up my photos in Aperture. I had realised that the the actual files are kept in Projects when you pull them into Aperture and I had a whole range of topics organised into folders with the projects...
A trip on a steam pulled train from London to the coast. An early start to catch the train I got up up with the sparrows at 5am on Saturday 15th October 2011, mainly because Paula had to do her hair properly as we had planned to dress in...
Just read a great article at 40horse.com on creating a custom ExpressionEngine2 Login Screen so decided to have a quick update to my own login screen. It is slightly frivolous as only I will ever see it hopefully but every little bit...
Steve Jobs was many things to many people. To me he was one of a handful of people who have had a profound effect on my life. My thoughts and reflections on the influence of Steve Jobs on me. I woke this morning to the sad news that...
The first UK ExpressionEngine conference I first considered going to the EEUK11 conference when it came up in a discussion at one of our LondonEErs meetup sessions. I had seen a few tweets about the possibility of a UK conference...
Installing Pixel & Tonics new Assets add-on This week Pixel & Tonic have released Assets., a new file management add-on for ExpressionEngine. This is an area of content management that has been lacking in the past but has been improving...
At the Shakey Super Pull We had a great day, between rain showers, watching the very loud, very fast, very powerful and very smokey tractors competing in the BTPA points event — recommended fun day out for next year. During one of the...