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This is all quite topical for us because we've just passed one year of a five-year plan to get our affairs in order such that we can move to the hills of Slovenia. We need to feel that we'in the middle of nowhere and the fact that Slovenia is a mini Europe (Alpine mountains, lakes, coast on the Adriatic) means that we can always drive to a "holiday destination". And it snows in winter, which is perfect!
This is the house we saw which made us think "let's do it!" OK, it will have sold by the time we're ready to move but it's more than whetted the appetite! Look at all that isolation!

We did a bit more searching on a holiday last summer between Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia and realised that property on the Croatian side of the border seems ridiculously cheap. Since my better half is already very good at Croatian (she watches Croatian comedies and laughs at all the right parts), we may revise the plan and go to the north of Croatia instead.
We're on course with all the goals we've set ourselves to make it possible. The one important thing is that I need to have a job where I can work remotely once we go there, since she'll be giving up work after 20 years of stress, so if you're looking to expand the support team ... 😉
 

This is all quite topical for us because we've just passed one year of a five-year plan to get our affairs in order such that we can move to the hills of Slovenia. We need to feel that we'in the middle of nowhere and the fact that Slovenia is a mini Europe (Alpine mountains, lakes, coast on the Adriatic) means that we can always drive to a "holiday destination". And it snows in winter, which is perfect!
This is the house we saw which made us think "let's do it!" OK, it will have sold by the time we're ready to move but it's more than whetted the appetite! Look at all that isolation!

We did a bit more searching on a holiday last summer between Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia and realised that property on the Croatian side of the border seems ridiculously cheap. Since my better half is already very good at Croatian (she watches Croatian comedies and laughs at all the right parts), we may revise the plan and go to the north of Croatia instead.
We're on course with all the goals we've set ourselves to make it possible. The one important thing is that I need to have a job where I can work remotely once we go there, since she'll be giving up work after 20 years of stress, so if you're looking to expand the support team ... 😉
 

Mega! We sell books and Commerce prior to 4.4 is a little bit limiting, certainly compared to what seems plausible soon 🙂
 
 

Whoops, thanks! I forgot to convert it from .mov to a more globally used format - it would have been embedded for Mac users 😂 I'll fix that 😊
Yes 👍🏻
You can set a product to not be visible to any groups 
Commerce already has a concept of fields the customer can fill out when purchasing (for example, if you offer a thing in multiple colors, allowing the customer to choose one) but this is something the admin sets - sort of like subcategorisation.
Sometimes there will be overlap (like for color, you might have both an option for customers to choose at checkout, and set a filter with all of the available options) but many things will be static. For example you might have filters for "Brand", "Author", "Genre", "Gender", "Rating" (for films), "Release Year", etc.

Next time anybody suggests that the Invision Community team doesn't listen, send them to this article. There's so much here that I've seen people bring up over the past year. What an amazing product. You lovely, lovely people.

I'd pay off the rest of the mortgage and then say to my better half "I've got £965,000. As soon as you want to, give up work."
And the reason I'd do that is because she's worked her socks off over the years in a job she really dislikes, long hours under stress, to put us in a position where we can have lots of holidays and still be not far off paying the mortgage in one third of the time we were supposed to. I do my bit but I earn far less for doing something that I enjoy. Once we're in the clear, she's earned the right never to have to work again if she doesn't want to. And a 5% return on £965k (around £48k) is more than we need to live very comfortably, so I suppose I might find it tempting to give up too in this situation.

Next time anybody suggests that the Invision Community team doesn't listen, send them to this article. There's so much here that I've seen people bring up over the past year. What an amazing product. You lovely, lovely people.

I took more than that to the charity shop last year to make space ?
I can get a bit out of control with reading if I end up in the zone. This was the pile of books I read in 2016:

And I think this was 2015's:

Getting busy and learning how to use the internet on my phone (ie I now idle in bed when I can't sleep instead of getting up and reading for a few hours) means I'm on a paltry 30 or so books so far this year.

I often think I would've loved to be a vet. But, y'know ... snakes. No thank you.
I suppose in the real world being a diplomat would be a problem. Or being a defence lawyer. OK, I know that people are often accused of crimes they hadn't actually committed and so merit the best efforts of a professional to try to make the jury reach a verdict of not guilty, but it'd be on my mind that lots of people professing innocence would actually be guilty too. I don't think I'd be capable of defending someone against a weak prosecutor if I believed they were actually guilty of something heinous.

Good stuff, Matt. When I started using Pages it took me a while to get to grips with it. A video like this will come in very handy for other new users, I'm sure.
My main site's still under development and has quite a bit of Pages powering it. I don't want to link to it whilst it's still not ready but here's an example: a pronunciation database for language learners, powered by Pages:
 
 

They are the cheapest source of knowledge you'll ever find.

I'm about to go on holiday so will have to rummage through the not-read shelf and work out which to take with me. It's currently looking like this:

If you've reached the conclusion that I like Ken Follett, you get the cookie. I've read all of his books in English and it's become a tradition that I buy his book Eye of the Needle in any language I passively understand if I can find it. The burgundy book is the Romanian version, although I'm not going to tackle it yet until I find the time to put more effort into learning the language first. I tend to buy Follett's books in other languages, too; I really enjoy them but they're not difficult to read.
I can see four Follett books in Portuguese there (bought for practice before going on holiday a few weeks back, although I only had time to read half of the books which Santa gave me, so these ones are left behind), two Spanish ones (a similar story for a holiday last year), plus an Italian one. It looks as though I have books in Gascon (a children's one, so it won't be difficult), French (the two Star Wars ones), Esperanto, and Slovakian (which I actually bought for my wife but didn't dare give her -- it's a biography of the inventor of Esperanto, so more my area of interest than hers) ... plus an Occitan course book. Don't have time, unfortunately.
I seem to get on well with historical fiction, so there are a few books which are the first in their series to try. If I get on well with book 1, the completist in me strikes and I start working my way through the lot. I really don't find the time to read very often anymore (hence the stack of Portuguese and Spanish books which I didn't manage to get to on time) so I'm looking forward to going away for two weeks at the weekend as the time of year in which I can leave work mostly to one side and sit down with a few good books ? 

Good stuff, Matt. When I started using Pages it took me a while to get to grips with it. A video like this will come in very handy for other new users, I'm sure.
My main site's still under development and has quite a bit of Pages powering it. I don't want to link to it whilst it's still not ready but here's an example: a pronunciation database for language learners, powered by Pages:
 
 

Yep, more templates is on our short list for a major Pages update coming fairly soon.

Good stuff, Matt. When I started using Pages it took me a while to get to grips with it. A video like this will come in very handy for other new users, I'm sure.
My main site's still under development and has quite a bit of Pages powering it. I don't want to link to it whilst it's still not ready but here's an example: a pronunciation database for language learners, powered by Pages:
 
 

That's fantastic! 

Good stuff, Matt. When I started using Pages it took me a while to get to grips with it. A video like this will come in very handy for other new users, I'm sure.
My main site's still under development and has quite a bit of Pages powering it. I don't want to link to it whilst it's still not ready but here's an example: a pronunciation database for language learners, powered by Pages:
 
 

Good stuff, Matt. When I started using Pages it took me a while to get to grips with it. A video like this will come in very handy for other new users, I'm sure.
My main site's still under development and has quite a bit of Pages powering it. I don't want to link to it whilst it's still not ready but here's an example: a pronunciation database for language learners, powered by Pages:
 
 

Good stuff, Matt. When I started using Pages it took me a while to get to grips with it. A video like this will come in very handy for other new users, I'm sure.
My main site's still under development and has quite a bit of Pages powering it. I don't want to link to it whilst it's still not ready but here's an example: a pronunciation database for language learners, powered by Pages:
 
 

It lacks the orderliness of everybody else's, I feel, but it's my attempt to look modern: two monitors with a laptop docked to them, etc. But yeah ... cables everywhere, shoved off to the side where they won't get in the way. And try not to notice that the main monitor is millimetres too tall for its location when connected to its own stand, so I've had to knock up a fairly rubbish wooden frame for it and wedge it in there. At least I have lighting, though! (It's a strip light, Matt, for added points!)

It lacks the orderliness of everybody else's, I feel, but it's my attempt to look modern: two monitors with a laptop docked to them, etc. But yeah ... cables everywhere, shoved off to the side where they won't get in the way. And try not to notice that the main monitor is millimetres too tall for its location when connected to its own stand, so I've had to knock up a fairly rubbish wooden frame for it and wedge it in there. At least I have lighting, though! (It's a strip light, Matt, for added points!)

It lacks the orderliness of everybody else's, I feel, but it's my attempt to look modern: two monitors with a laptop docked to them, etc. But yeah ... cables everywhere, shoved off to the side where they won't get in the way. And try not to notice that the main monitor is millimetres too tall for its location when connected to its own stand, so I've had to knock up a fairly rubbish wooden frame for it and wedge it in there. At least I have lighting, though! (It's a strip light, Matt, for added points!)

It lacks the orderliness of everybody else's, I feel, but it's my attempt to look modern: two monitors with a laptop docked to them, etc. But yeah ... cables everywhere, shoved off to the side where they won't get in the way. And try not to notice that the main monitor is millimetres too tall for its location when connected to its own stand, so I've had to knock up a fairly rubbish wooden frame for it and wedge it in there. At least I have lighting, though! (It's a strip light, Matt, for added points!)

Many? Most? Really? Sorry, but I don’t think those are honest claims. You happened to found one—that’s far from many or even most. 
My tip: read the GDRP text yourself. It clearly addresses this. If the processing of data was necessary anyway, the GDRP changes nothing. Shipping a product requires a shipping address. A contact form requires a way to reply to the request. GDRP doesn’t change that. It’s in there. 

I have, which is why I settled on "Guest" to completely anonymise it and ensure no mining or pattern matching could occur.
That really is not required. It should all in the T&S and Privacy Policy which you have to opt-in to when registering, and this opt-in is recorded.
GDPR is not about putting a checkbox in front of every possible interaction with the site. What a nightmare that would be for everyone.