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A mainly dry Sunday

Mainly dry, except when I was working on the car. 🙂

Cleared the air lock in the heater by disconnecting the heater hose from one of the heater valves and pouring coolant in through a funnel until it poured out of the heater valve. The heater now works and the engine isn’t overheating.

I’m planning on moving the on-line shopping cart on my website from PayPal to SECPay as a number of people have complained about the process PayPal makes them go through for high value purchases. I’ve written the new SECPay integration page for the shopping cart and testing with SECPay is going well. I’m just waiting for Streamline to send me the e-commerce agreement forms and complete their processes.

Finished a number of orders received from my web site for posting tomorrow.

A very wet Friday

Collected the new radiator for the BMW. Removed the old radiator and fitted the new one. The engine is now overheating nicely, a common problem with BMWs after working on the cooling system, you get an air lock in the heater which is the highest point in the cooling system. Why BMW fit the air bleed valve on the radiator which isn’t the highest point is a mystery!

Elaine and Andrew called in to collect their wedding album, they loved the Jorgensen Wessex Album with metal cover and gave me a lovely thank you card for the way I photographed their wedding – I was really chuffed!

A busy Wednesday

Most of the day spent processing images, applying final colour corrections and cropping.

Tracked down a source for a new radiator for my BMW as it’s suddenly become a mobile steam machine, thank goodness we have two BMWs and a Passat!

Welsh class this evening, then popped in to see my mum.

Monday – another quiet day

Still having some problems with my local Post Office accepting SmartStamp Special Delivery items. I took along a copy of the email from Royal Mail that states they have to accept them so they did but they weren’t terribly happy.

Lots of ‘trick or treaters’ this evening!

A mainly quiet Sunday

A fairly relaxing day – Sunday lunch at home for the first time in a number of weeks.

A customer contacted me this evening about issues with PayPal payments, I’m hoping to make the move soon to SecPay for payments from my on-line order pages. SecPay should provide a smoother interface for my customers, most of whom do not have issues with PayPal but I know from my own experiences when becoming a verified merchant that some of their process can take a little time.