If you can recommend other things then post me a comment and let me know. I’ll post them and they’ll go straight into our retirement plan : )

stay (farm cottage #19966 – fab, cosy place just renovated 5mins from harbour)

drink (with huge big fireplace and a ghost)

eat (well)

deli (treacle tarts & clotted cream – mmmm)

sausages (try the chilli ones)

art (funky)

buckets (& spades)

books (lovely shop – lots of local things)

spike (he ended up in rye – lovely bio by his agent. ps: they sell it at the local bookstore)

dungerness (the one and only – if you see a shack up for sale, tell me!)

derek jarman (he had a shack – it’s lovely)

And here’s more shizzle from Clive:

chuff – The Romney Hythe & Dymchurch railway is a miniature steam railway that makes its way up and down the coast beyond Dungeness. It brings out the railway enthusiast you never knew was hiding within you. RH&DR runs in the opposite direction to Rye, but is the best way to arrive at the wonderfully eccentric Dungeness, so well worth the detour.

coffee The Apothecary does lovely coffee in a quirky shop with big comfy sofas. They do B&B too, I’m told.

greenery – Next to the deli Roger mentions above is a very friendly helpful greengrocer that’s good to visit if you’re self-catering. The only drawback is the punny name: ‘Fruitique’. Ouch.

cobblers Simply wander around the winding cobbled streets, finding pubs, churches and unexpected views over the surrounding landscape.

stay – Pump Cottages, in Wish Ward. Very nice, if slightly twee, fully-equipped cottage. Fairly central. Sleeps three. Not online, but let me know if you want details.

Meantime, new best practice paper for SEO content / Keywords / Content Optimization published today. Everything you need to know and more about better content for SEO in a very QuickStart fashion.

Here he is. Don’t mess. He’s getting bigger by the day.

More Luca-ry can be found via: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rogerwarner/tags/lucaswarner/

Gerry and I realised earlier this month that of all the wonderful things in front of us, time isn’t going to be one of them. We also realised that we spend a fair amount of money trying to create more of it: by getting our groceries delivered and the like.

Talking it over we also realised that we tend to attach a high value to those things that have us make time. We book a dinner a week or two ahead, I dash back from work, we eat, we talk. I buy a book that makes me think in a different way about things, I take stuff on board, I change my outlook.

The value in this stuff isn’t really the quality of the food or the words on the page. We can cook better at home and figure out new ideas ourselves. Nope, the value is in the time we dedicate to them. The sad truth is that we’ve found ourselves needing a reservation or a hardcover (we have a fetish) in order to devote time to ourselves and one another.

Isn’t that odd? We bribe ourselves in order to gain our own attention – and if we’re not spending time and effort in this way then, what….?

I’m beginning to realise why families force one another to sit at the table for dinner. Without routines things just slip on by and we drift.

Boy, what goes around comes around – Lucas is going to love us when he’s fifteen. We are truly all our parents.

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We launched C&M a few weeks back, and one of our tasks was to kick ass on Google – around the search term ‘content optimisation’. Well we did that (from zero to hero within x2 weeks, no less).

Now it’s time to turn our attention to another keyword market – ‘Online PR.’ I’ve placed bets with a bunch of folks that C&M will rank first page on Google for Online PR by October 25th. Approximately three weeks.

Ever the optimist, and damn good at our jobs, that’s exactly what we intend to do.

So – the great Online PR agency race is on. The winner takes a pint and a half of Harvey’s Best bitter on the Friday night. That’s incentive enough for me. I’m usually drunk after the first.

I’m happy to say that Content & Motion is now a going concern. This is me and my gang and we’re about to do some fabulous things with a new slant on SEO and Online PR. Content & Motion is a Content Creation, Content Optimisation and Online PR agency. We use a variety of groovy web marketing techniques to help you win new friends and influence people.

Call us if you need this kind of help.

He’s two now. Wouldn’t you know? He’s banging his cot in the room behind me right now. Keeps dropping his dum-dum on the floor. Golly I hope this blog survives till 2020. He’ll be sure to cherish these loving pictures. He’ll probably only have to think them into existence and they’ll flash around his little neuro-networked ginger bonce. Then he’ll smack me.

Have decided that weekends would be better served with tea, rather than Shiraz-fuelled. Easier on the morning head. And just as collectible, yet cheaper. So many upsides.

So I got on down to All About Tea and stuffed my basket full of Darjeeling and Chai. Today it arrived, with custom made tasting notes, potted histories, and a tea catalogue as long as my arm. I think I’m going to enjoy this. Thank you Andrew Gadsden “Saviour of Tea”. Your service is lovely and I have a hunch you are a fine man.

This is an interesting tool. Worth checking in with it again sometime. As of today, it suggests I’m a ‘NEW’ ‘LOVE’ kind of guy…. probably because I have a lot of ‘LUCAS’ in my life : )