Sadly I have to admit, I just don’t have time to update this site. It is a shame because there is great potential there, and it gets reasonable traffic, but I’m just too busy.
If anyone is interesting in buying England’s Portal then please get in touch. The site includes a working directory and I’ll include a years free hosting.
The morning of the 24th May will see the torch Relay start its day in Gloucester at 8.15am when it sets off from The Docks and travels through the City for approximately an hour. See map
This will be a great day for the city of Gloucester, but don’t forget that many roads into Gloucester will be closed early in the morning. We plan to be here for 7 am. Naturally we will be taking some video and photos as the torch passes my office twice. It will run down Westgate Street, into the Cathedral and then back up Westgate Street, so we will have 2 bites of the cherry.
I am hoping to get the video up live on line within an hour of the procession passing us.
If you are in Gloucester we are at 46 Westgate street. Do drop in and say hello.
The Gloucestershire Portal was created by a local man who is intensly proud of the county and his home town of Gloucester. It started when I first started my company and was then SoftData and Virtual Gloucester. For those of you who would like a laugh and a bit of nostalgia you can still see the site on the Way Back Machine in May 1998 which is when archive.org first crawled the site.
Since then the site has gone through many updates until it now sites on it’s own domain that you see now. The current site consists of many pages about the county, Old Gloucester, Gloucester history, Forums for personal and business use, Streaming videos and our famous Gloucestershire Directory
The busiest sections are the forums and the directory. If you have any interest in the county at all, whether it is business or personal then our forums are for you.
My better half had a very painful accident on Friday, and on Saturday morning 
I had to take her to the Accident and emergency unit in Gloucester.
I have to say that everyone there were kindness itself. A nurse saw Vanda hobbling in and quickly fetched a wheelchair for her. We were seen speedilly by a doctor, x rays were taken and Vanda was given a splint and crutches as well as a bag of pain killers.
Outside the unit when I fetched the car to take her home, she just couldnt manage to get into the front seat, and while she was struggling to get out an ambulance was trying to leave. The driver and medic, got out and helped her into the back seat. So, a very big than you to all of the staff at Gloucester Royal Hospital.
Gloucester council have been planting trees throughout the city, and today they have been adding annuals around the base of the planters. A brilliant idea.
Bluebells in Gloucestershire
The old theme on this blog has been up for a very long time now, so I thought I’d create a brand new one. Due to pressure at work this blog, and to a certain extent our forums have been neglected of late.
Hapilly, now that I have help in the office that should change.
Quay St Gloucester
It is good to see that after all the fuss there are now many community led library branches either open or about to open. Churchdown, Painswick and Mitcheldean are just a few. The Mitcheldean Library Action Group has now set up the new GL17 Community Hub to take on responsibility for the centre and is determined services will not be hit.
There has been a very vindictive and politically led campaign by the self styled “Friends of Gloucestershire Libraries”, that does them no credit at all. In particular on the tig site some of their comments have been particularly offensive. Continued denigrating comments about individual councillors seem to be their forte, and denigrating the wonderful volunteers who are giving their own time for the community also attract their bile.
It is past time these “protesters” started to look at the real world. The council does not have an unlimited pot of money and libraries simply must take their share of the cuts that are affecting everything in this terrible recession.
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I have always been fanatical about promoting Gloucester ( I was born here in this marvelous little city ) , and I’m proud to be involved with the latest ways of promoting our city.
The 4 Gates of Gloucester is a web site and magazine that are free, self funding and not for profit.
Set up and funded by City Centre businesses to share news, features and articles about our City, around our City. An independent social enterprise organisation, Four Gates has been created by Gloucester business and people, forGloucester businesses and people.
The regularly updated website and bi-monthly publication aims to build and enrich our City Centre .
It will also feature a listing for every city centre shop and business, something that is not available anywhere at all.
I’m also proud to be hosting the Believe in Gloucester website run by marketing Gloucester
Westgate St Gloucester
Although my original motive for publishing this site was just to promote this glorious area, I have always beleived it is important to give local business every opportunity to promote themselves without leaving the site a haven for spam. There are many ways you can help yourself here: