Foreign Perspectives

With the hectic pace of things over the past 12 months, I’ve not had a chance to take much time out for tidying up nor for catching up in quite a while. Net effect is, of course, that there’s a backlog of things in both categories.

What really needs caught up is the new entries on my holiday accommodation listings sites as I’ve only done the paid entries for several months now which means that I’ve now got over 100 of the free entries to get through. First up on that front will be those that don’t need tidying up. I’m constantly amazed at how little effort some people put into advertising their property. I can forgive (or, rather, correct) the odd spelling or grammatical mistake and I’ll tidy up the layout for people but why bother with an advert that’s just one sentence long and all in capitals? If I’ve time to spare I’ll drop the too short entries a line to say that they need to add a lot more text and some do really up their game when asked. If it’s otherwise good, I’ll even retype the all-capitals ones but generally they’ve got dreadful spelling and grammar too so I just delete them.

Also needing done is the upgrade of the Android applications. Those were put on as a trial about six months ago and are pulling a steady stream of downloads so the planned upgrade should improve on that somewhat as it’ll be a really major upgrade in terms of quality and usability.

Ongoing is a lot of administration which I’m starting to make some inroads with but there’s a long way to go.

And, of course, there’s the things that have been tootling along in the background. This afternoon for instance is a trip to the hospital with Mum to see about her upcoming operation.