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Christmas Voucher Websites

30th November 201730th November 2017 Karon McBrideBlog

Try our Christmas voucher website hosting and design service. Astrantium Hosting is based in Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland and specialises in websites for small local businesses. If you sell things, you can use a one page voucher website to[…]

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Peace! Peace! Peace!

21st September 20162nd October 2016 Karon McBrideBlog

So good they named it three times, ‘Peace! Peace! Peace!’ has been used as a headline as long as newspapers have existed. It is probably a translated quotation from the 128th poem of ‘Canzoniere’ by[…]

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18th Century gentleman in tricorn hat

Piracy off the coast of Islay

19th September 201620th September 2016 Karon McBrideBlog

The Scottish isle of Islay (pronounced eye-luh) is a peaceful place, hardly one associated with piracy, but in the late eighteenth Century, things were very different. From the Caledonian Mercury – Saturday 28 October 1780[…]

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Cartoon engraving signed by C. Hentschel

Carl Hentschel, engraver

5th September 201610th September 2016 Karon McBrideBlog

[su_button url=”http://www.redbubble.com/people/astrantium/works/23048056-how-to-fall-out-of-a-hammock” target=”blank” style=”soft” background=”#c886d2″ center=”yes” icon=”icon: shopping-cart”]Buy the Hammock print[/su_button] The cartoon illustrated above – My Hammock, And How I Got Into It – is signed by Carl Hentschel, 1864 – 1930, who was[…]

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Trail Blazers

18th August 201625th August 2016 Karon McBrideBlog

“There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the master becomes, not only[…]

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A day at the office

10th March 201518th July 2017 Karon McBrideBlog

The first action of the day is to lift the blinds and check the state of the sea. This sets the tone for the day – calm, stormy, grey, blue, lively, mill pond. The second[…]

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Essential WordPress Plugins

10th March 201518th July 2017 Karon McBrideBlog

According to a recent report, 59% percent of the website whose content management system is known are based on WordPress. [https://w3techs.com]  The plugins selected for our ‘essential plugins’ collection included in our hosting plans add[…]

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