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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We went to Coolings Garden Centre at Knockholt in Kent last Friday. They are truly worth a visit for the quality and diversity of the plants (and the scrummy cake in the tea shop!). We were thrilled to find a small leaved bamboo with...
Our friends Simon and Minnie got married at Oaks Farm. Simon was properly dressed in frock coat and cravat along with the ushers including me. Minnie, her bridesmaid and her mum wore the traditional Japanese kimono and obi. It the first...
I made a small trellis, from bamboo that I had pruned out of the garden last month, which I have dug in with the first clematis up against the fence. We wanted to paint the fence before we had any established plants in alongside it. I...
We have painted the eastern boundary fence black. We tried to get some more of the black fence paint that we had already used but the local DTY Superstores no longer stock it - how annoying! We looked up the Cuprinol website and found...
I have upgraded the Gallery software and started to change its appearance to match the rest of the site. Enhancements include a slide show facility within each album so you can site back and enjoy the show! Update Sadly I had to remove...
Lots of sites use short catchy 'action' terms to entice people into further sections of thier sites. The dreaded 'click here' is the all time classic but 'more', 'read more' and other variations also abound. The alternative is to...
A couple of Mac sites have complicated tables forming Mac like windows for showing stories. I wanted to try and do this in css alone and reduce the number of graphics as well. The css is as follows: #box1 { border: 1px #000000 solid; }...
I have seen a couple of examples of css roll over buttons on the web but they changed a simple square block of colour and I wanted something more stylish - more like what you do with graphical javascript rollovers. I decide the way to do...
Over the past few years I have become more and more engrossed with Cascading Style Sheets and the benefits they offer to the web. This year I have stepped up that interest with an eventual aim of changing all the sites that I run over to...
Pete, Paula's brother and I went down to Leith hill near Dorking on Sunday morning for a five mile walk. It was very misty on the way down - which made the scenery going into Coldharbour all the more dramatic. The walk up to Leith Hill...
Just checked my hotmail account - which I only have so that I can use MSN Messenger because certain friends use it rather than ICQ. MSN are now expiring unused hotmail accounts after 30 days. What a pain! They claim its to save disk...
The up side of being unwell is that I have spent this week delving into CSS. What a minefeild! I have used CSS for a longtime now but never for the page layout. The home page now uses my first public stab at it. I still have to break the...
Paula surprised me with a holiday in Japan for my birthday. We went on the 6th April and arrived back on the 18th and it was absolutely awesome. It has been my favourite destination ever and there is so much to take in. The written...
Mum, dad, Conor, Lou and Steve are up for the day visiting - if you have been looking at the web cam you may have seen us! Dad is snoozing in the sun at the moment and I will have a post lunch nap myself in a moment. :)
Down in Deal for a little drink with Phil and Vicky for Phil's special old man birthday. Big hi to Steve because it's his birthday actually today!