Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

I've been playing with word press. I wrote out a beginning and ...it won't save it.

drat, and now lost it.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I've been playing with word press. I wrote out a beginning and ...it won't save it.

drat, and now lost it.

Awww. I can't help - as I said, I had my account suspended
So I can't log into mine and look/advise.

My version of Wordpress is similar, but not the same... and mine's all tweaked and loaded and fiddled with by me so it's nothing like the wordpress free version at all now.

P.S. You get your account suspended when you break the ONE rule I told you about before - about linking to other websites. Although I now know there's a way to be legal about that.... didn't know at the time.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

Entire sites have been taken down from blogger or wordpress (the site that offers free blogs) for no particularly good reason.

Two of mine were. First one I'll admit I broke the rules, I was new, I didn't understand .... 2nd time wasn't any good reason.

Same with Yahoo Answers - I'll admit to breaking the rules the first time, second time I wasn't and I was banned.

tomterm8 wrote: »

The reason I thought blogger was a good site it that most people find it very easy to get an adsence account via blogger... once you have an adsence account, you can use it on a wordpress blog or any other site.

You can export your stuff from WP and import it into your self-hosted, then immediately apply to Adsense then anyway, or there are other ways to get an account.

But, I think focussing on the monetization might detract from the writing at this stage. You can monetize content later, first you need the content. And people who sign up to Adsense and see £0.00 staring them in the face for 2 weeks tend to give up.

tomterm8 wrote: »

Either way, if you are going to try out a blog, I think it is the kind of thing that starts very slow, so it can feel a little like you are just talking to yourself. It pays off in the longer term.

Yes, you have to really be self-driven and effectively just write for your own enjoyment... the cash is a bonus... and only then can you think about strategy.

treliac

LydiaJ wrote: »

I have been explaining to them that next week we'll be borrowing a friend's car for a few days while ours goes in to the garage to have a replacement engine fitted. DS (who has never shown the slightest interest in the car engine before) claims to be upset at the idea of the current engine being taken away. I mean I know bereaved children are hyper-sensitive to loss, but a car engine???? :eek: A week or two ago he discovered that I had taken a broken chair to the tip. I had warned him it was going and taken photographs of it (which seems to help him a bit) but he still cried for several minutes when he found out about it. He complained he hadn't had a chance to say goodbye to it and pleaded to be taken to the tip to bid it farewell. I explained that the rules at the tip are that children aren't supposed to get out of cars, so I wouldn't take him, and he got over it eventually, but it's a bit of a nightmare.

TBH dealing with the clutter would be difficult for me anyway because I'm not good at that sort of thing, and I have very little spare time and find it terribly difficult to motivate myself to use what little spare time I do have to deal with the stuff. However, to have the children resisting even what efforts I do make is doing my head in.

It may be that his sense of earlier loss is prompting him to hang on to anything and everything at the moment. If he can be indulged, he could get over this stage faster than otherwise I would think. My DS is very sentimental - taking after me probably. I could see he may have reacted like your son.

I would expect your son's feelings to come out, bit by bit, in all sorts of unusual ways but they're all probably connected.

As regards clutter, your sentiments on dealing with it echo my own so closely that I can't add anything at all, other than to say good luck - somehow or other you will get there and be ready to go when the time comes.

LydiaJ

Thanks treliac.

That makes me feel better. I'm indulging the loss-aversion as much as I can - definitely take photos of stuff before it goes, since that's what he says helps. But I can't keep two houses-worth of stuff indefinitely - I can't get removals people to move it all to the new house while it's all in such chaos anyway. Watch this space. I'll let you know how it goes.

Appointment with solicitor tomorrow to discuss contracts. :beer:

John_Pierpoint

lostinrates wrote: »

I have thought of just going up to well maintained looking period houses and knocking on the door ...

''Hi, I'm a sort of neighbour...I live a few miles away, and I like your house...who is your builder?'' Is that odd?

In country areas, most people have time to chat and would probably be flattered.

You have triggered a lost memory of mine:
It was an interview with one of Princess Margaret's children, saying how embarrassing it was as a kid, having Tony Armstrong Jones as a dad. They would be driving through the shires and Tony would be attracted by some feature of a country pile, so he would just go in and chat up the owners.

My pet hate is "remote cypher locks" - the sort of thing where you drive up in the Range Rover and press the zapper to roll open the gate.
Antisocial car drivers with antisocial home arrangements.:mad: All part of the "Gated Communities" trend in our "multi ethnic" society.

The best security is to make friends with your nosey neighbours.

Davesnave

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John_Pierpoint wrote: »

The best security is to make friends with your nosey neighbours.

But maybe not your noisy ones.

The guy who complained, because it 'spoiled his view and invaded his privacy' when we cut our hedges back to install the sheep fencing, let his dog bark for two hours on Sunday afternoon. OK, he is 250m away from us, but this is a quiet place and noise travels.

While this doesn't happen so often now, I have decided that we will probably have a few pigs in a year or so, and you can guess where I will be housing them. It makes practical sense, because that land is the least useful.

In the meantime, I'm propagating comfrey to use as a fertilizer. There is nothing quite so stinky as comfrey water, especially when you give the barrel a good stir. Because it is so invasive, you can guess where I'll be putting that too! :rotfl:As long as it's quiet I won't stir....

The nosy neighbours, I agree about. We're a bit lax about security, because we have those, in spades.

RenovationMan

I saw a TV program (gardeners world?) where they grew comfrey in empty (harvested) vegetable beds and then dug it all into the ground in spring when they sowed the next lot of veggie seeds. It looked like an effortless way to put nutrients back into the soil.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Its like when I heard someone call for their dog ''Happy'' in a London park and the name I'd been planning for a dog for ages was ruined instantly...originality, its all been done before.

You could always call the dog Yappy instead. It's a really good name for a small dog.

SingleSue

I'm mentally shattered!

Spent all morning catching up on study and then doing an online tutorial. The online tutorial was fun, never used it before and neither had the tutor, so at times, it was like the blind leading the blind but it was very beneficial despite the teething problems.

It was a little awkward though when she was asking questions as I think we all had a bit of stage fright but me being me, could not bear the silence so answered....and answered...and answered, so much so that I felt embarrassed. I did try to wait until the silence got too much before clicking that I knew the answer but it still made me feel like one of those know it alls you want to knock out or tie up in the classroom.