I have started, and eventually killed off, many websites over the past few decades. The graveyard section of the lawsie website is a record of beginnings, endings and the occasional resurrection.
Peterborough Skateparks
Launched 21/02/2016 Moved from blogger to lawsie 16/03/23 Original URL https://peterboroughskateparks.blogspot.com/ Screenshot of the old Peterborough Skateparks website Peterborough Skateparks content Bretton Eye Hampton Oundle Road Peterborough Ontario Stanground Welland Werrington Why did I build this section of my website? I have been visiting Peterborough for about twenty years. It’s where my in-laws live and…
Ipswich Wiki
Launched 01/01/2013 Moved from Google Sites to lawsie 11/03/23 Original URL ipswichwiki.co.uk About Ipswich Wiki Ipswich Music Wiki is a long-term project that will attempt to document the people, places and some of the more intangible aspects of original live music in Ipswich. For this project to work we need your memories – if you…
Ti Cat Brand Titanium
Launched 24/11/2021 Closed 11/03/23 Original URL www.ticat.info Some stock is still available on ebay ticat.info screenshot Titanium Bike Parts Titanium is cool, that’s just all there is to it. Bikes are even cooler. Simple. So it made total sense to combine the two to make something double cool. So Ti Cat Brand Titanium was born.…
Positivity.Click
Launched 03/12/18 Closed 11/03/23 Original URL positivity.click positivity.click screenshot Why did Positivity Click exist? Positive affirmations are a big part of good mental health. This website is a collection of positive quotes and affirmations. Click the button below to get your first positive quote or affirmation. Click the button again for more, or visit again…
So Suffolk
Launched 14/12/16 Closed 03/03/23 (but no new posts since 2018) Original URL sosuffolk.com Sosuffolk.com was launched to be an antidote to the overwhelmingly negative national media and local press that focussed on ‘selling misery’. The idea was to focus on positive news, but it turns out that maybe misery is what people want. I worked…
Jekyll Rocks
Launched 01/02/18 Closed 23/02/23 Original URL jekyll.rocks I set this site up as a sort of running fix log while I was trying to learn how to build websites using the Jekyll CMS. Some of these issues were real head-scratchers so I figured I was probably not the only person trying to solve these issues.…
Perrytink Creative
Launched 10/10/20 Closed 22/02/23 Original URL perrytink.com Perrytink Creative was a short-lived website that I built to highlight some of the interesting creative projects I was working on with my brother-in-law Mark Curtis. This page is an archive of that website. I am still very much working with Mark, but we don’t need a website…
Diecast Car collectables & other diecast toys
Diecast Cat During one of the COVID-19 lockdowns I wanted a project to work on with my daughter. She likes websites and toy cars so Diecast Cat was born. We bought a few job lots of diecast toys and models from Facebook Marketplace and set about cataloguing them and building an online store using WordPress…
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Diecast Cars – introducing Diecast Cat!
My nine year old daughter and I both LOVE Diecast Cars, and all miniature diecast toys, so we have launched our first ever joint project – diecastcat.shopOur Diecast Cars online store We have been collecting, sorting and cataloging diecast cars for some time now, so it feels good to get the site up and running!…
Ipswich Gigs changes… again!
Ipswich Gigs is DEAD. If you want to know why read this page. You can still find out what’s happening in Ipswich by going to any (or all) of these places: Facebook Instagram Twitter Reddit P.S There is an archive of all the flyers from the website from the last few years (up until COVID-19)…
Veloballs.com 03/05/14 to 09/09/19
Ignore this post, VeloBalls is very much alive. This was posted during a brief hiatus when the site was out of action for a bit. VeloBalls is BACK! Go now! https://veloballs.com/ Five years ago I started a cycling website called VeloBalls.com and I’ve got to say, it was pretty great. It also spawned a cycling discounts…
My name is Andrew and this is my Dad blog
This post was originally posted on my Crud Dad blog on 28th May 2016 I’ve kept blogs about various things over the years. Yesterday I was speaking to a friend and they asked why I haven’t got a Dad blog, I thought, you know what? I don’t know. I started a blog a while ago…
Suffolk Skateparks
Launched 01/01/2016 Moved from blogger to lawsie 16/03/23 Original URL https://suffolkskateparks.blogspot.com/ Aldeburgh Bury St.Edmunds Felixstowe Framlingham Hadleigh Ipswich Ipswich NW Ipswich Gainsborough Martlesham Stowmarket Wickham Market Woodbridge The boring bit I started skating in Suffolk some time around 1989. Using the word ‘skating’ might be over-egging it somewhat. I had a flat skateboard with solid…
Hot Sauce UK blog
Launched 15/02/2014 Moved from blogger to lawsie 18/03/23 Original URL https://hotsauceuk.blogspot.com/ Hot Sauce UK blog screenshot Welcome aboard, Chilli Sauce lovers! The first post on a new blog is always loaded with excitable hyperbole about how the author will frequently and passionately post about their favourite topic. The next post is usually dated at least…
Ipswich Arts Centre website R.I.P – Jan 2012 to August 2013
I launched the Ipswich Arts Centre website as a reaction to a ‘what are you doing to improve your town’ type question levelled at me during a radio interview. I decided I probably could at least get people talking about whether Ipswich needed an Arts Centre. On the whole the discussion was very healthy and…
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PunkNews.co.uk
PunkNews.co.uk was originally started way back in 2001 by someone called Tom, then it was taken over by Ellis, and then Colin, then it changed its name to PunkNews.org.uk for a bit, and then back to PunkNews.co.uk, but nobody really gives a fup about that do they? We’ve probably got our own history wrong anyway……
Alefeed (R.I.P)
Alefeed.com was a real ale, homebrew and craft brewery news website that I ran for most of 2012, but for various reasons too dull to impart I shut it down on Wednesday 22nd August 2012. If you came here looking for homebrew information please visit the very excellent Brewers Barn website at https://www.brewersbarn.co.uk/
161211 – Bike News for Bike Punx – (R.I.P)
161211.com was a cycling news website that I set up for kicks at the start of 2012. The name (and domain name) was used simply because I had it left over from a promotional project for my old band, and I thought the numbers looked cool. After nearly a year of running the site I…
Shrubland Hall Revisited | April 2006 to July 2011
Shrubland Revisited was a website I set up for my wife and other ex-employees of the Shrublands estate near Ipswich in Suffolk after Lord de Saumarez announced the closure of the clinic on April 2nd 2006. Several past members of staff and residents sent me their ‘memories’ of Shrubland Hall, and I have archived these…
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Web Care Takers – February 2002 to July 2011
STOP PRESS! We have re-branded and re-launched! Please visit www.andrewlaws.com ——————————————————————————————————————- In 2002 (after a couple of years working as a network admin/ general IT consultant followed by two years working in London as a website controller) I decided to go it alone and started working for myself using Web Care Takers as my trading…
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Bungalow Basher
BungalowBasher.com is a domain mentioned on 16th January 2006, at around 11.45am during ‘Ring Round The Bath’ on BBC Radio 4. I wondered if the domain existed, and it didn’t! So before the program had even finished I had this domain registered and this page live! Ring Around the Bath is one of my favourites…
‘This is huge’ – my new blog!
As you’ll know (if you’re a regular on my blog) I very rarely cross-post content, but as I have a new blog to promote I decided to make an exception. If you head on over to https://thisishuge.blogspot.com/ you’ll find a blog based around a subject that might surprise a few of my followers. I decided to start…
Corndog Publishing Zine Distro
CornDog Publishing Zine Distro was a zine distro that I ran for a few years, the distro started by accident after I ended up with boxes and boxes of zines from around the world that I had traded for with copies of my own zine ‘Beat Motel’. I think I was the first UK distro…
IpswichGigs.co.uk 2003 – 2010
Ipswich Gigs | Promote your Page too This article is outdated, please visit www.ipswichgigs.co.uk for the latest news IpswichGigs.co.uk was started by me (Andrew Culture) and Henry Sutcliffe in January 2003, and switched off on July 1st 2010. Our original mission was promote (what was at the time) a woefully underrepresented alternative music scene here…
LawsieCam.com
LawsieCam.com was running from some time in 1999 until June 2009, I decided to close the site as a part of a huge simplification process I’m going through. The gallery has been archived here… Here’s the old intro text from LawsieCam.com: Ipswich webcams are few and far between, so about ten years ago I decided…