I can now press buttons when I’m posting and expect that the desired result will be just seconds away instead of the 8-10 minutes it too with the netbook I just opened WordPress, clicked a few buttons and found myself, twelve seconds later, ready to write a new post.
Or, more accurately, staring at a blank screen.
It’s debatable whether this represents a world of possibilities or fear of the unknown.
I’m similarly poised in haibun terms. After a spell which featured a rejection and an acceptance that required so much work I might as well have walked away and written something new, I began to struggle. I was also finding it difficult to write with the netbook.
Fortunately I was able to keep writing using pen and paper, even if I couldn’t prepare it for submission. Finally, editing in my email programme, I managed to get two submissions prepared and send them off. I’m waiting now, but the result doesn’t really matter. All that matters is that I’m back in the game.
Gull on Llandudno Pier
We had a Painted Lady in the garden again when I returned home, though it’s painful to watch them as I can see the way the red valerian is dying back as summer progresses. Three sightings is a pitiful result compared to the counts we used to get on the farm, but then we are working with a small paved area with red valerian a small buddleia and a few other odds and ends.
It looked like the valerian was colonising a few inhospitable cracks in the garden next door, but their normal zero-tolerance policy for wildlfe cut in after a few exciting weeks and they have returned to formal wasteland status. And there I was, thinking that I might be helping to establish a wildlife habitat.
Arnot Hill
The Arnot Hill photo was just gorgeous. The light shining through the leaves really made the photo. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, glad you liked it.
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Good to hear you are able to write blog posts more easily again. And as I am commenting, clearly the comments box is no longer an issue.
Good to see you back. I never did find out what caused the glitch, but it affected at least two people.
I wrote to WP admin twice – they never replied but I suppose they got a few emails and looked into the matter.
They once sent me an email with an explanation. To be honest, I’d have understood more of it if they’d written in Latin. It’s my age…
Or their Latin!
Beautiful back-lit photo of alder!
Thank you. I was pleased with it at the time – I really need to concentrate on my photography a bit more, but there’s never enough time for everything.
I know. A little depressing, really.
Everything seems a bit depressing at the moment. 🙁
Tell me about it. 🙁
🙂 It will get better.
🙂
Glad to hear things are working again, Quercus!
Thank you. 🙂
Yay for back in the game!
🙂
These don’t seem the efforts of a lazy man
You are, as usual, too kind.
OK – you are a lazy git, but you have managed to do a bit.
That’s more like it! 🙂
Does the gull speak your weight?
No, it just prospects for innocent ice creams from its vantage point.