h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If you remember, I said I would tell you when my Web site for painting dogs was up and running. Well, here it is...

www.lespringle.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

Let me know if you think it stands a chance.

Beans (Les)

Hi Les,
I searched for your site - even got Google on the job - but couldn't find you. Sure you gave me the right address?
Brian

Brian,
Yes, it's the correct one. The only bit I didn't add was the http:// at the start, but that should come up on its own. Are you sure you put all the dots in, there are lots of them.

It won't be picked up on a Google search for a week or two. (something about robots going out and searching the web, so my boffin says.)

Les.

In fact, try lifting this,

http://www.lespringle.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

Should have said...click on this.

Hi Les,
I've just clcicked on to your web page and I am impressed - not so much with the page but by the quality of your work. Superb. Why aren't you doing this full time? I had a neighbour in Evesham who did cat portraits - not in the same class, mind - and she was making a fortune.
As a painter myself, a late starter, I didn't graduate until I was in my sixties, I really envy you your technique.
All I can say, Les, is that I wish you the luck you deserve which is plenty.
Wow! Still catching my breath.

Brian

Thanks Brian,
Drawing and painting has always been a hobby for me, it’s been an escape, and as such, has played an important part in my life.
I will be fifty-two in November, and if you work for the health service, retirement age is sixty-five! Twenty years working exclusively on 999 work is the maximum anyone should do, after that you are ‘burned out’. I have done twenty-seven years, and am well past my sell by date. So…I hope to take early retirement in about five years and bolster my pension with a bit of painting. (the wife intends to work till she’s seventy, something I have not tried to dissuade her from.)

The web site is deliberately crude,…it’s aimed at non internet wise people. Someone who simply wants a dog painting can’t go wrong on this site. (or I hope they can’t.) As you can imagine, I don’t have time to do a lot of painting, the last thing I want at the moment are lots of orders. I am simply testing the water, and will judge on the response how much to charge. I have five years to get it right. (you never know, I might end up being your next-door neighbour in Spain.)

Les.