This Week with Taylor & Gordon

Taylor and Gordon Drayson

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A weekly vidcast/podcast for small businesses

MAR 6

Season 6 - Episode 238

Convention for Professional Bubble Artists – AOIBA Filming lectures and shows People attending get access to the videos Capture, edit and upload as we go, so I don’t have a ton of work to do when I return home DJI Mics for speakers Cameras for each room Planning and equipment takes time CinemaSync web app Deciding what to watch at the cinema each week Review timeline, compare films Comparing films, times, screen types etc. Making life easier Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

15 min
FEB 27

Season 6 - Episode 237

Ambient Dashboard – Magic Mirror… An interactive display showing whatever is important to you Running on a Fire TV stick in kiosk mode Showing upcoming meetings, sports events, time to leave with traffic taken into account Heating, Home Automation stats etc. Turns off when Taylor leaves the flat Up-to-date white board Building it from scratch allows any tools to be added – more flexibility Multiple pages if needed Touchscreen in the future maybe? Blackpool Magic Convention last week Breakfast – lectures, shows, buying magic, 5000 magicians, gala shows, networking and drinks, late to bed, and then repeat Sleep is in debit Taking Action on things you have seen, learnt and spoken to people about Striking while the iron is still hot Making notes at the time to refer back to Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

17 min
FEB 13

Season 6 - Episode 236

Lots of small tasks completed this week Two 6 hour coding sessions for Taylor Blackpool Magic Convention is happening next week Longing this year by 1 day or 33% Worlds biggest Magic Convention Catching up with friends you don’t see very often Very tiring but also very rewarding Friend’s Meetings Making time for friends and family – scheduling them like a meeting Cinema and Tennis as examples Giving your sole attention to other people so you don’t push them away Making time for your children Shared calendars so we can see what each of us are doing No show next week due to Blackpool Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

14 min
FEB 6

Season 6 - Episode 235

Herman Miller Chair – https://ukstore.hermanmiller.com/collections/seating/ Fully Adjustable – very high quality chair Expensive but very good. Purchased second hand one on Facebook Marketplace, 1 hour away Built June 2025, so very new No headrest – but one has been purchased and will be delivered Researching and purchasing the best we can afford Tax Bill paid Keeping track of your energy usage Fuel company supplied In Home Display SMET2 compatible power monitoring Bright App – https://glowmarkt.com/bright Glow Display / CAD – https://www.hildebrand.co.uk/products/ihd-cad Works with Home Assistant so you can collect live fuel usage Watch for usage spikes quickly See custom usage for devices that report power usage, currently only washing machine and tumble dryer Tado X don’t report usage Electric sockets and power strips that report power usage are available Keep track of the power hungry devices in the home and office See your energy usage as a Sankey Chart Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

22 min
JAN 30

Season 6 - Episode 234

What Makes Today a Success – web app myThreeTasks – currently in beta Gamifying Productivity Lots of ideas to improve the app For streaks, only working days count Invite only – great marketing User gets to choose what their tasks are – big or small Frustrations this week Video issues for the Panto video – corruption is to blame The next step when the video is complete is to find the root cause and fix it Big video job coming up so this is important Backup and storage planning Adilo is going back on their contract for Lifetime Deal Users Closing “legacy” account illegally and move to subscription Vimeo is cheaper so I would have to move everything back again Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

20 min
JAN 23

Season 6 - Episode 233

Helpful Triggers Create triggers to give you good habits Obligation is a good trigger Rewarding yourself for doing tasks that maybe you don’t enjoy doing Putting the Kindle in the right place to make picking it up easy Put things by your car keys to remember to take them with you Wednesday… working on Panto DVDs Problems with recording hardware Errors in the Bambu AMS – Automatic Material System, and having to take it apart to clear the broken filament Tiny magnets and strings leaping for freedom Battling to get them back in and stop them attracting Getting the videos finished to a self imposed deadline Don’t upgrade software in the middle of a project Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

16 min
JAN 16

Season 6 - Episode 232

New Season, New Colour Pantomime week Filming shows, taking photos, rehearsing and performing Next job is editing System created a couple of years ago to allow for streaming Doesn’t really make a profit – but I do it for my own reasons, and is very rewarding Taylor is 3rd Generation for these shows Widow Twanky in Aladdin Time Logging – Tallyho – https://tallyho.app/ Toggl is great but has more features than needed Tallyho is minimal and does what it does really well For the client and Taylor Contacting the developer to request features and updates Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

17 min
JAN 2

Season 6 - Episode 231

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

3 min

A weekly vidcast/podcast for small businesses

Creator

Taylor and Gordon Drayson
Years Active

2020 - 2026
Episodes

200
Rating

Clean
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