I was thinking of putting a forum on the front page where we could all help each other with comments on each other's websites.
Trying to help each other with constructive comments on how perhaps your website would look better if you done xyz,
spelling/grammar? problems,
as I know this is not my strong point etc or how to get a website up if your thinking of having one.
So the idea would be to help each other, as websites are a very personnal thing and sometimes we can all be very sensitive about them.
We would only comment on sites that people ask for help.
What should we call the forum if it goes up, how about,
"Website Help"
"Your Website Chat"

Anyone fancy being the first up or I could put one of my sites up, I think I've got six including this forum.

Graham Lee

My friend John Anscombe does a lot of artwork for me, my lecture notes, cartoons on my website, picture on my DVD cover etc etc.
These two were done on a birthday card that he sent to me a few weeks back.
I think there just fantastic and if anyone needs any art work, please get in touch with me & I'll pass on his details.

Graham Lee

I have just heard from the people that produce these on behalf of Vanessa, David's wife.
There are nine DVD's in the set and will be priced at £20 each or the full set for £150.oo
I will hopefully have these on the website over the next few days with all monies going to help David's family.


Graham Lee

Patrick has also very kindly agreed to answer any questions you may have for him,
he is a busy man but has kindly agreed to be interviewed from the 1st/6th July.
His work is just stunning, I worked with him at The Cafe Royal when I was helping Colin make the balloon dresses &
Patrick decorated the room with over 100 different cartoon characteurs.
When you walked into the room it was breathtaking.
Will see if I have some photos from this event & that it's ok to post them here for you to see.
For more details about Patrick's work please checkout,
http://www.patrick.balloonhq.com

Graham Lee

Sabina will do an interview for us as well, the date is 5/11th May.
So please post any questions you might have for her.
More details about Sabina can be found at,
http://www.twistart.at or http://twistart.balloonhq.com/
She is an amazing artiste with flair & vision.
Sabina is also coming over to the UK for a lecture/workshop on Wed 9th July.
More details to follow.

Graham Lee

OK It's not a world tour, just one lecture in the UK.
Sabina is coming over for a week 6/11th July. The plan is to have a lecture probably on the Wed 9th July,
the question is where shall I book. Looking for it to be central for everyone that wishes to attend, still to finalise cost for the day as well.
Your thoughts as always are appreciated.
Morte details about Sabina's fantastic work can be found at,
http://www.twistart.at
I expect Sabina will also do "The Interview" on here in a couple of weeks time, althouh I've not asked her to yet.

Graham Lee

This is a shameless plug that two care & share days are coming up at the end of the month,
Leeds, Tuesday 29th April. Twistina is the Mystery lecturer, http://www.twistina.co.uk
Birmingham, Thursday 1st May. Mystery lecturer? It's even a mystery to me at the moment.
More details can be found at,
http://sempertexballoons.co.uk/index.ph ... are%20Days

Graham Lee

A well deserved congratulations to Christine for winning in the large sculpture competition yesterday at
"The International Party Show" in Birmingham.
Christine was also placed second in the delivery section, which unfortunately I didn't get a picture.
Dont forget that Christine will be lecturing at the Leeds care & share day on Tuesday 29th April.

Graham Lee

Hi all,
Very pleased to say that Ralph has agreed to answer any questions you may have for him between 7/13th April.
Please post your questions on the interview forum.
http://www.balloonchat.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=57

Graham Lee

Some pictures from an old gallery

There is an auction going on over on MBD2 for a space at any care & share day, at the moment £20 dollars.
So anyone that is a member can pick up a bargain. The auction finishes at the end of the March.

Graham Lee

Hi all,
Found some old hats in my picture archive,
thought they may be useful to someone.
Would be nice to see your variations of these.
Scooter Hat
Dolphin Hat
Dog Hat

Been at the Doncaster juggling convention for two days as they have a small balloon convention attached to the main juggling convention.
The jugglers come from all over the world & just sign up to teach different classes, the one that caught my eye this year was making
musical instruments from vegtables, the carrott whistle looked good.
Will have to try & see if there is anything on you tube about this.
The twister instructore were,
David Crofts, Twistina, Michael from Ireland, Colin Myles & myself
with a varied selection of topics being covered.
As the majority of people that attend are the jugglers who get free entry when the sign up to the full
3 day juggling convention the classes are kept to begineer/Int.
Really had fun the first day catching up with everyone & going out for a meal.
Thoroughly enjoyed teching my two classes & having fun with the class.
I think the average class had about 15 people attending & they lasted for one & a half hours.
Talk is this may be held in Manchester next year.

Graham Lee

A Very big "Thank You" to Wim for helping with all the behind the scene problems setting up this forum and there have been a few.
This would have taken me months to get up & working and Wim is still working on all the finer details of the site which I didn't even know about.

I come up with the idea's for the forum & poor old Wim has to programme & sort things out, and he says we are a team. Seem's a bit one sided to me,
but I'll come up with something for him to say thanks. Watch this space.

Will be speaking to someone very soon to get a model put up that we can all try to make.
I think it would be nice for it to be up for a while so that we can attempt to make it & post our efforts.
Then after a few days the instructions go up. It can be very surprising when you try to make something
without the instructions that halfway through it looke like something ecompletely different & then off you go at a tangent.
Your thoughts on this are welcome, as they are on any other of the topic on the forum.
I'd very much like this to be a user's forum, so all your suggestions are welcome as they may spark someone else into coming up with an idea.

Graham Lee

Here are the dates for those wanting to come along to the fundays,
more details can be found through the link,
http://sempertexballoons.co.uk/index.ph ... are%20Days
but confirmed dates so far for this year are,

Leeds, Tuesday 29th April
Birmingham, Thursday 1st May
Ashford, Wednesday 21st May
Mildenhall, Wednesday 18th June
Darlington, Tuesday 15th July
Manchester Thursday 17th July
Northampton Wed 22nd Oct

Graham Lee

Well hello to everyone, just trying to programme the site up with my limited amount of knowledge with computers.
I think I may have to get someone to help me set the forum up.
Very busy at the moment with the Ralph Dewey lecture, my balloon act show & lecturing.
Hope to find time soon to get the forum up & working.

Graham Lee