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I am struck today that many businesses - especially artisan businesses - do not have websites. It might be that your business does not suit mail order - bottles and the post are no doubt expensive. But maybe a website that shows me a bit of ankle so I try to track down your farm shop would be kewl?

And if you have a website, well done, but if you are trying to sell me something, a large button marked BUY would probably be useful. If I click on SHOP and get a drop down menu, I'm likely to be distract by those drop down menus, each of which seem to presuppose I've ordered something already. If one of those pages has a link to a shop page, let it take me to the shop page. I don't want 404 dead link.

If you have a shop - say a shop that has all your beers and lots of European beers too - a decent map and directions on your website would help, with an optional link to Googlemaps, and showing public transport. (Your leaflet gives no indication of scale, and whilst it has a bus stop marked, how about a route number?)

Trying to be unchained here, and hitting the fail.

Edited to Add: I think being told a webpage works when this morning I could not work how to get through to your stock list is a little... well... Of course it's evident to you, but you've lost the trade from idiots. Thanks for at least thanking me for pointing out the deadlinks but, well, it's not as if there are that many pages on your site...

A couple of months ago Ollie mentioned a festival he was running at Badlesmere. Beer and bands, and did I mention beer? Camp over night, there's a barbecue, oh, and beer. Clearly knowing the way to a man's heart, he persuaded me to file it away in the check it out nearer the time mental box. I looked up the place on the net - not helped by the pronunciation not quite sounding like it was spelt, and failed to find more details, or at least details for 2007. Talking to others I found out it was near Faversham - but not exactly near public transport. But it sounded as if it were in the manner of an invitation, so I could blag a lift to here.

The months went by, and I bought myself a two person tent (on the grounds it was cheaper than a one person tent) from ASDA and a sleeping mat from ALDI. (I'm considering only buying stuff from shops with four letter names.) I got round to testing it in the back garden, on about the only dry night this month, and it seemed to work, although I can't say I got a lot of sleep. Then I phoned Ollie to arrange the lift, and I was to meet Becky at the Carps at 9.50.

( Pick Up )

( The Barbecue )

( Sumo Wrestling )

( Ozzy Osbourne )

( The Music )

( TV's Ben Mills who Came Third on X-Factor )

( The Drink )

( The Rain )

( The Fire )

( The Puddle )

( Striking the Camp )

( The Cause )