Pictures and merchandise depicting Beautiful Britain
This site is a bit of a mystery. There is no About Me/Us page and the person who has put it together and who updates it regularly isn't named anywhere. But it has lovely photographs of Britain's countryside and gardens. I found it while looking for information on the Laburnum Walk at Bodnant in North Wales (that's what's in the photograph here).
The site includes:
* Picture of the Day
* On This Day Events from Britain's past
* Weekly Updates on Britain's changing seasons
* Picture of the Week
* 88 piece downloadable jigsaws
* Monthly Updates
* Wallpaper downloads
Note added on 19 December 2006:
Since typing the above I have received the following information from Howard the owner of the Beautiful Britain site:
Thanks for the e-mail via the Guestbook:
"This is a lovely site, which I will include in mine BUT:
* where is the About me/us page? I can't work out exactly what the site is intended to do/be? Can you send me a summary (which I will use).
* who is "I" throughout the site? The author of the entries doesn't appear to be named anywhere."
I didn’t feel that an ‘about me’ page was needed. I’ve read so many personal ‘blogs’ from people who try to hotlink to my wallpaper pictures and realized that most of the ‘bloggers’ didn’t really have anything interesting to say, apart from such statements as, (quote) - "Hello, my name is Phil. I don't like cheese." J
I don’t think that most people are really interested in who I am, they’re interested primarily in visiting the site for desktop wallpapers etc. The site currently averages 2500 ‘unique visitors’ per day, but this peaks in the spring to 3500 unique visitors as people also browse the website to visit the nesting birds / wildlife / pond sections. Many visit the site looking for one thing and say that they become absorbed in reading the other sections, which is very pleasing.
The site is just a hobby (sometimes it seems more like a way of life!) but people tell me how much they enjoy it and how it relaxes them on stressful days at the office. See - http://beautifulbritain.co.uk/cgi-bin/bb2006/bb.cgi There have been desktop wallpapers on the site now for 5 years and I know from some of my regular correspondents that they have stayed with the site since day one. I’ve even met up with some of them when they’ve visited Britain.
There is some new content each day and a new wallpaper and downloadable jigsaw each week, which gives people a reason for returning to the site on a regular basis.
There’s also a section about where I live - http://www.beautifulbritain.co.uk/htm/whitworth/whitworth_rossendale.htm I’m not mentioned by name on the site, and neither is my e-mail address, but it still doesn’t stop me being deluged with spam mail, hence the Guestbook is now the only means of contact. All Guestbook entries with a valid e-mail address are answered …… eventually. Cyber vandals try to attack the Guestbook as well, which is why messages are not posted ‘live’ but are vetted for content first.
Re "I can't work out exactly what the site is intended to do/be?" Maybe a quote from one Charles M. Schulz on of my wallpaper pictures sums us the site’s philosophy (if it even has a philosophy!) "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
The Beautiful Britain site primarily shows the diverse countryside in this small but beautiful island and it gives me a reason for going out and about and sharing my photographs with others, rather than just viewing them on my own computer. I’ve lost count of the number of times people use the words soothing, calming, relaxing, peaceful, beautiful etc. when they write to me about the wallpapers they use from the site, so maybe it’s a form of ‘stress busting’! Google shows almost 700,000 matches for stress busting, but my site comes at no cost and with no medication required. J
Re. "Can you send me a summary (which I will use)." I think that what you’ve put is fine. Thank you for the inclusion.
Re. "The author of the entries doesn't appear to be named anywhere." I used to be the village school Head Master in the area in which I still live. Sometimes keeping your anonymity is no bad thing!
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