Saturday 24 April 2021

Things Are Not Set In Stone

 


Hello, Dear Reader. There are changes coming in my neck of the blogosphere, so I've been a bit busy in the toolshed of this one, trying to fathom out how some of the pulleys and levers work. It's not really my natural habitat, and has frankly been rather tedious, especially as the, ahem, quality outpourings of my mind have been meanwhile accumulating like dust bunnies in the Draft Department. Such a mess there!

For any who may be interested, new botherings lie with Emails, RSS and what even is it and if my life has got to this point without knowing then why should I now? Is Mailchimp a rabid primate or not? Would just switching to WordPress make these unfathomables go away? It has Plugins, which are nought to do with domestic appliances. See what I mean? Tedious. And means not a scrap to anyone with no Blogge.

In other News, reading has been continuing apace, and some book spoilers will be coming your way in due course. Brilliant new history podcast entertainments, Age of Victoria, comes courtesy of sidebar resident Ur-spo who is seen about the Comments Department. We've been Out to another baroque concert and seen the ballet, reviews there also in the clogged pipeline, and my own dancing classes have resumed to supplement the weekly tap dancing. Life is presently heading toward the classification of Normal.

So this little salutation is more of a Proof of Life missive. Middling success will be the outcome if this blog post reaches you in a seemly and timely manner. Else it shall be back to the workshop.



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14 comments:

  1. I am glad you liked Age of Victoria podcast. He does a fine job.

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  2. Ur-spo: I'm loving it! Thank you for the introduction.

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  3. Oh dear! I think that I appreciate where you are coming from. Normally I rely heavily on my eldest son to sort me out. It involves tedious moments spent sharing screens with him, and then trying to comprehend, without appearing too stupid, exactly what I am supposed to press, and where exactly it is. Good luckX

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  4. Rosemary: Lucky you to have a Handy Person within some sort of reach! I feared I had made a rod for my own back with an email subscription option, and as for RSS - that's still in the Whaa?? department - but I'm making some sort of headway. I think :) xx

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  5. Congratulations and salutations are in order!! I could not survive without my graphic designer, computer wizard (and all round genius) as I have a brain that seems to only do modestly well working with words. All who are right and left brain equipped are masters of the universe : ) So glad to hear Normalcy is on the near horizon Down Under, I think--hope--pray-- it will be here in the states as well. At least people are queueing for the vaccine. Was a breeze to click and read your post, always a delight : ) Cheers!! Debbie

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  6. Debbie: Salutations and so nice to see you! And thank you for the endorsement of the the new Click & Collect-your-tidbit feature! It's likely to be my solution to the pending death of the present emailing gadget. And my release back into the world of reading delicious stuffs again - this has been an eye-glazingly-dull interlude. And to think the world of computers seemed so exciting in the Olden Days! :)

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  7. I have missed you on my blog. You disappeared. Don't change to Wordpress whatever you do, you will immediately lose a lot of Blogger friends because Blogger friends don't like Wordpress believe me. I am still enjoying your posts but don't always have anything to say. I am not sure what you are talking about with emailing gadgets but keeping it simple works best xx

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  8. Rachel: Still there and lurking about your clean space! Quite unlike here, where I don't mind a bit of this and a bit of that and oh, I'll have one of those, too. The Blogger/Wordpress divide is pretty glaring, no? I'm quite happy visiting some bloggers on the Dark Side but there isn't much cross-pollination going on, that I can tell. It's everywhere in the physical world, too: Sydney Harbour divides this city into North Shore/Eastern Suburbs (I have yet to theorise which side is WP) & there's a Sydney/Melbourne divide, too. Life is terribly tribal. xx

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  9. My only problem with Wordpress bloggers is that I often can’t comment on them which is annoying ! .... & I thought modern technology was supposed to make life easier ..... it often makes me want to tear my hair out !!!! It has made me more techy though and, if I can’t do something, I make myself work it out ! XXXX

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  10. Jackie: Oh, I'm determined to get to the bottom of my new glitches, come what may! My problem is I'm not particularly interested in technology, so don't Keep Up, and then when I have to figure out something new, everything has changed since the last time I looked. Even the mere 3 years I've spent getting comfortable on Blogger has meant I hadn't noticed that I've gone all Jon Snow and Know Nothing again! xx

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  11. I feel your pain, as it were. I have barely a clue about how blog formats work, even though I've been blogging for over a decade now. I have had my husband help with formatting when I've felt the need to change something. I have to say that I do like your 'wallpaper'. The blossoms and color scheme are lovely.

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  12. Bea: Handy Husbands, they're so good to have :) The wallpaper is, indeed, wallpaper - it's by a French Art Nouveau designer Maurice Pillard Verneuil from c. 1897 called "Bat and Poppy". I find the colour scheme rather soothing. According to the blurb on the website where you can buy it, "it evokes a fin de siecle maturity the cusp of decline". Bien sûr.

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  13. May I simply say how much I like the illustration of the person getting on the bus; it says everything you need to know, which is what good graphics is all about.

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  14. Cro: This is a rare pictogram at an out-of-the-way bus stop. The beloved and simple signs have been mostly phased out at great expense to either ambiguous or messy signage because good things that work can never be left alone.

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