About The Blog
This blog has been around in one form or another since 2008. It has been home to posts on hill walking, photography, writing and other things which seemed like a good idea at the time. In the beginning, and without a word of a lie, the intention was to make some money. Hell, it was going to make a fortune, but time, the pressures of a ‘real’ job and lack of dedication have undermined those early expectations.
Instead it is a place away from Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites where I can take time to write and lay out my thoughts on subjects for which I have a deep-seated opinions or perhaps simply fleeting interests. You will be able to tell by the length of the post. It is a space of my own on the internet. Where I can experiment and document, challenge and collaborate.
Apart from the Home page and this page, the site is broken down into three parent categories taken from the old Mars advert:
- Work
- Rest
- Play
Posts under work are (will be) related to my work. Comments on Management, Meetings and Engineering and Design. The other two categories are less obvious. Rest includes some things you may expect to find under rest (e.g. Food and Drink) but some less obvious. Gardening? Under Rest? Well yes as it happens. It’s not necessarily about resting of the body, but of the mind as well and an hour or two in the Garden can produce a Zen like calm (not to mention a raging thirst for an ice cold beer – so back to Drink). Finally, Play, is essentially all the things my wife sees as being ‘Play’ and thus includes this blog, software, photography etc. Please don’t be offended if you think that I am belittling these things – I’m not. Just categorising them with respect to my life as it is at the moment.
The upshot is there’s a hell of a lot going on here. This will continue to be the case until 2013 or 100 posts (which ever comes second). At that point the focus will be on the six categories (two from each parent) which have the most posts and / or the most comments and or the best written (as judged by me). With that in mind, I’m keeping track of my post rate to check the growth towards this goal:
My dog will continue to post. You can comment if you like.
About The Author
Craig Webster was born in Canterbury, Kent (where the tales come from) in 1972. He moved to the North East of Scotland aged 4 and went to Aberdeen University and The Robert Gordon University graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Civil & Structural) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Systems.
He has worked as a barman, a kilt hire specialist, a designer of timber frame roofs, a barman again, a downhole tool engineer before settling down to become a production technologist (he is still not sure what this is) in the oil and gas industry. He currently lives in Aberdeen and is owned by a wife and a dog called Skye.
He has recently given up smoking, magazines, nasal hair, being thirty something and EVE online. This has made him grumpier than usual – which is saying quite a lot!
About Skelly Rock
Skelly Rock was the name of the street on which Craig and his wife had their first house together after they were married. The street in turn was named for a rock along the coast of the North Sea at Black Dog, just North of Aberdeen, on which the Coastal Emperor (a trawler) was lost in 1978.
