My shiny new website - mrsonchus

[mrsonchus]

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[Johann]

Very nice John - looking very professional.
Now you need to load lots of pictures on the site

[mrsonchus]

Very nice John - looking very professional.
Now you need to load lots of pictures on the site

Haha!

Johann - my very first visitor!
Loads of pictures is exactly what I intend my friend, and lots more to-boot!

I need to get rid of the ghastly working-tools picture, intended to sort-of mean that the site's under construction, apologies - I know how corny that is!

Lots to do in the lab also, several projects on the verge of their beginnings - exciting times, and if I am able to make a small income from my slides it'll all help to run my little 'lab'!

Thanks for your visit and encouragement Johann!

[Crater Eddie]

Looks good John! I'll be checking it often.
CE

[mrsonchus]

Looks good John! I'll be checking it often.
CE

Thanks Eddie - lots to do!

[zzffnn]

Way to go, John B. I will be a supporter and return customer. In the future, I may want a liverwort stained slide, an unstained ~20 um plant ovary and an unstained ~20 um flower head with pollens.

[billbillt]

Hi John,

Congratulations!!.. Can't wait to see pics there!!...

The Best,
BillT

[Johann]

Johann - my very first visitor!

First of many!

[rnabholz]

Congratulations John.

Best of luck with it. The product certainly deserves a first class home.

Watch out though, once you see how easy it is, you may find you need more....

[mrsonchus]

Wow - chaps - what a great response - thanks you fine fellows! Hopefully I'll get it to the stage of actually being worth visiting soon, but your encouragement has given me a good start!

[mrsonchus]

Way to go, John B. I will be a supporter and return customer. In the future, I may want a liverwort stained slide, an unstained ~20 um plant ovary and an unstained ~20 um flower head with pollens.

Aha.... Fan, here's a teaser - I found only this morning some freshly-sprouted Thalli from presumably my Marchantia's spores!

The tiny little sheets of tissue have very clearly defined and wide-open pores, and as a bonus perfectly-formed and occupied (by numerous vegetative 'propagules' - basically detached buds the plant makes of itself for clonal reproduction) gemmae-cups!

Here are a couple of rather poor pictures - I took them quickly and got a little over-excited!

occupied gemmae cups

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and teeth!

gemma-cup with teeth on 'rim' and propagules inside

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The many different parts of these fascinating little plants will make a superb slide-set - I can't wait to start on them. They won't be easy - they're very small, gritty and somewhat particulate I think it may be said - but with care it will be possible. This may be a good subject for double-embedding as practiced by me a while ago...
A series conventionally embedded vs a series doubly-embedded will be my approach - first job is to dissect and place into fixative though! Another adventure begins to form in the brain-box! Such fun and mystery awaits!

I feel a new adventure coming on!
Thanks for your kind words and support.

[gekko]

Congratulations, John! I must have missed this post earlier. Very professional (as all your work is).
And beautiful images of the gemma.

[billbillt]

Hi John,

Yes!.. This will be a new adventure to follow!.. The "teeth" picture is very intriguing!..

BillT

[charlie g]

Congrats, John B. , on your new platform of sharing, and on your microscopy.

Like Fan, I'm delighted with the slides I purchased from you....it's added dimension to know the botanist/microscopist who prepared the materials...hear, hear for Mr.Sonchas/ John B.! charlie guevara

[DaveH]

Very nice JohnB, I will look forward to watching it grow.
Good luck with your new venture.

Dave

[JimT]

So..., you use a mallet, a can of paint, and a tape to make your slides? Hmmm

I will visit often my friend.

JimT

[mrsonchus]

So..., you use a mallet, a can of paint, and a tape to make your slides? Hmmm

I will visit often my friend.

JimT

If you saw some of my first slides you'd think so!

Thanks Jim,
Just managed to log-in and start my web-site's e-mail - what a circuitous and tortuous process that was!
I'll start developing it this weekend I think, soon have it looking nice and started-off!

[mrsonchus]

Congrats, John B. , on your new platform of sharing, and on your microscopy.

Like Fan, I'm delighted with the slides I purchased from you....it's added dimension to know the botanist/microscopist who prepared the materials...hear, hear for Mr.Sonchas/ John B.! charlie guevara

Thanks Charlie, good to hear from you! Pleased to know you're enjoying your slides old chap!

[mrsonchus]

Very nice JohnB, I will look forward to watching it grow.
Good luck with your new venture.

Dave

Thanks Dave - that's a very kind thought and is appreciated old chap!
I'll put updates into the forum as I get the site up and running - it's my personal web-site where I'll also offer slides, not a pure commercial site all about money - I just needed a place to put extra info, maybe video demos, technique sheets etc, who knows, maybe even a form of 'lab diary' would be interesting...

Oh yes - some basic Botanical investigations maybe as an adjunct to some of my more involved adventures as I post them here?

Much to do, much to learn - just the way I like it!

[mrsonchus]

Hi John,

Yes!.. This will be a new adventure to follow!.. The "teeth" picture is very intriguing!..

BillT

Haha! Thanks Bill - I've some very interesting wax-blocks to 'rough' this evening - an adventure is unfolding!

What fun, mystery and delight!

As some may remember - "The game's afoot"....

[billbillt]

"elementary, Watson"!

[mrsonchus]

Haha! Good man Bill!

p.s. - the results from the lab re those Marchantia's gemmae-cup teeth are promising, very promising....

I'll post details and pictures later hopefully tonight, in a new thread.

[Radazz]

Beautiful teasers!

Can't wait to see more.

Jim

[mrsonchus]

Beautiful teasers!

Can't wait to see more.

Jim

Hi Jim, have you seen the post I made of the slides from these beauties?

Have a peek - viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3546

Lovely little plants!

[rabitt]

Bookmarked your site, Really looks good.
Takes a tremendous amount of work & time setting it up so a potential customer can find their way around it easily.
Also the details in your photos of what is available for purchase.

Rich B

[mrsonchus]

Bookmarked your site, Really looks good.
Takes a tremendous amount of work & time setting it up so a potential customer can find their way around it easily.
Also the details in your photos of what is available for purchase.

Rich B

Thanks Rich, great to have feedback. Yes, a lot of work even to get it to it's bare-bones stage as now. So far so good - it's small and not much is in it yet, but it is able to function as a basic site with the ability to communicate with me via the mrsonchus e-mail and site pages.

A learning-curve for sure! Great to have though as it won't be exclusively a place to buy slides, but a place where I'll be able to make downloadable guides and demos etc available as well as detailed information re what I actually do - all in one easily accessible location.

Many possibilities in addition to actual sales - I want to make it an interesting site to visit, with no nagging pressure to make a purchase. Perhaps a 'slide of the month' series, or demo slide-surfing stories for example! Sounds like fun for me to do also!

Thanks for your kind words, always encouraging for me my friend.


Much to ponder - any suggestions re content - not just commercial, would be a great help to me chaps!

[vasselle]

Bonjour
Je vient de regarder votre site ,félicitation pour votre travail.
Et je pense que dans quelques temps je vous en commanderais,car je trouve vos diapos très bien faites.
Bonne continuation.
Cordialement seb

[mrsonchus]

Bonjour
Je vient de regarder votre site ,félicitation pour votre travail.
Et je pense que dans quelques temps je vous en commanderais,car je trouve vos diapos très bien faites.
Bonne continuation.
Cordialement seb

Thank you seb. Anytime, just contact me my friend. I'm adding new slides all the time.

John B

[JimT]

Site looks great and based on your testimonials looks like you have had some happy customers. Well done "Old Chap " but don't get too absorbed in the business otherwise we will miss your posts on this site.

JimT

[mrsonchus]

Site looks great and based on your testimonials looks like you have had some happy customers. Well done "Old Chap " but don't get too absorbed in the business otherwise we will miss your posts on this site.

JimT

Hi Jim - many thanks - yes it's coming on well but I'm not spending too much time on it's construction now. I've just about got the hang of the editing system at BT now and have the website at least at a usable 'bare-bones' stage too.

I've been spending a lot of time with staining tests recently and have added a few extra protocols to my armoury - very time-consuming and exacting to find how the stains relate to each other but certainly worth the time!

I've also managed to find how to validate and link to my website from my youtube videos - although I now plan to have a dedicated youtube membership for mrsonchus.co.uk. It seems I'm now able to 'fence-off private videos' post-validation too - handy for making videos available only to the members here I think.

I've also been hunting for the elusive life-cycle stages of Marchantia liverwort - the male plants are so hard to find - today it took me two hours just to find 2 male antheridia - plenty of female plants and their archegonia and usually plenty of gemmae-cups, but the antheridia that were so common last month are now hard to find, although I suppose it depends where I look!

I'm going to put together an article about the mysteries of Liverworts in general - they are really quite fascinating, but very difficult subjects for sectioning and mounting - well worth the effort though!

I've also got some nice semi-mature fruit-tree embryos in fixative that will make good subjects for a series comparing various common fruit anatomies - so much to do - fantastic fun!

Much to do before the dreaded Winter months descend upon us in the UK!