David Saker

Today I’m in Birmingham

Central London inflation station

2nd Arch of the day ✅

First arch of the day is up.

Today I’m in York ✅

I took my nastiest, rustiest base plates & sprayed them Black. Now they’re my favourites.

Today I’m in Southampton & Mitcham

Today I’m in North Devon

More space for balloon poles

Today I’m in Sunderland

Draycote Water

Daves bike at Draycote water
Map of where Dave rode his bike

Todays arch is in Wallasey ✅

I need a lift

Building this 11 colour arch means having 22 bags of balloons - 11 x 5” & 11 x 13”



Auto-generated description: Large, colorful balloon letters spell out PRIDE in a display surrounded by plants.

This years PRIDE letters freestanding display.

Pin references for tomorrows PRIDE letters:
Auto-generated description: A garage setup featuring several metal stands with wires and storage items around the space.
Auto-generated description: Colorful balloon letters spelling PRIDE are displayed indoors with plants in the background.

Fully Charged & Fully Loaded

First PRIDE rainbow balloon arch of the year.

This mornings balloon arch is in Welling DA16, next stop is a Rainbow arch.

Working in London today with 3ft confetti balloons.

Search moving to ai

Apparently the future of advertising is no longer Google and is moving to ai chatbots. Here’s the results of a Chat GPT search:

🎈 Top Balloon Arch Delivery Services in the UK

  1. Balloon.co.uk • Coverage: Nationwide, including Nottingham • Specialties: Air-filled biodegradable arches suitable for both indoor and outdoor events • Pricing: Starts at £275 for the arch, plus £95 for delivery and setup (excluding VAT) • Notable Clients: Experience with large-scale installations, including 43 arches across the UK in one day

I wonder how long it will be before Amazon somehow becomes the top result?

In general Google search become junkiefied like an Instagram timeline. In the beginning it was a simple list of results with maybe 1 ad. Now it’s a page of junk.

The cleanest results at the moment come from Kagi & DuckDuckGo.

Today I’m in Bradford. Spit spot.

SE28 ✅

balloon.co.uk Down for an hour

Website down for an hour (balloon.co.uk). Traced the problem to Idaq.com who have hosted the domain name for 25 years (& balloon.uk).

They don’t provide hosting for the website, they point the domain to the server.

Did a bit of digging and their latest reviews were not looking too good so I requested to transfer the domains to Godaddy.

I can understand a server going down but I can’t understand how a DNS forward can stop. It even broke my emails.

Spending the night on the M1

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