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

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”

This years PRIDE letters freestanding display.

Pin references for tomorrows PRIDE letters:

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.

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