Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates · 14 February 2012 at 3:32PM

Haha, this is brill!

lostinrates · 14 February 2012 at 3:34PM

sss555s · 14 February 2012 at 4:00PM

lostinrates wrote: »

Cannot make it an avatar. Invalid file.:(

You do have to resize avatars to around 80 X 80 size.

I use this online editor for all my editing.....

http://pixlr.com/editor/

If you can right click and copy the image URL then open pixlr, click the open from URL and paste the URL in the box, ok then it should open. If this method works, you will see your avatar on the screen. Click the image tab above the picture area, then image size and set the picture to around 80 X 80.

This copy of your picture should be ok as an avater.

lostinrates · 14 February 2012 at 4:03PM

Sss you have been brilliant.

Sadly cannot use that one as i am mac, no flash ....:)

I don't really mind not having an avatar. I think the chances of seeing my avatar on someone elses screen regularly enough pictured here to make the laughter worth it are slim!

sss555s · 14 February 2012 at 4:09PM

lostinrates wrote: »

Sss you have been brilliant.

Sadly cannot use that one as i am mac, no flash ....:)

I don't really mind not having an avatar. I think the chances of seeing my avatar on someone elses screen regularly enough pictured here to make the laughter worth it are slim!

Cant you post the image on here or PM and someone can adjust it for you then you can use it?

This one is 80 X 80 so copy it and see if you can make it your temp Avatar...

lostinrates · 14 February 2012 at 4:13PM

Hahahaahahaha, did it , thank you!

Might not keep it for ever, but its the best picture i have ever taken!

LydiaJ · 14 February 2012 at 4:20PM

lostinrates wrote: »

Champagne, chocolates, flowers
!All Love's mysterious powers
Written in couplets in red glitter
In a red card, who could be bitter?
Singletons !might weep !and groan
About spending the day alone,
While loved up fools might feel the pressure
To buy red tat or feel their love is lesser!
For the want of a red g string!
Or a bit of commercial !bling.

Edit: i am certaon not a single one of those exclMtion marks was intentionally typed.

Or did you want something romantic?

I got a rhyming valentine's card today.... from my dad, explaining (in rhyme) that he always wrote a rhyming valentine for my mum, and now she's gone he's doing one for her daughter instead. It made me cry ... a lot. It's weird: my second-hand grief, thinking about how he's missing her, is much harder to deal with than my own loss of my mum. Is that very strange of me?

lostinrates · 14 February 2012 at 4:24PM

LydiaJ wrote: »

I got a rhyming valentine's card today.... from my dad, explaining (in rhyme) that he always wrote a rhyming valentine for my mum, and now she's gone he's doing one for her daughter instead. It made me cry ... a lot. It's weird: my second-hand grief, thinking about how he's missing her, is much harder to deal with than my own loss of my mum. Is that very strange of me?

No.

In a different way you have felt grief over a partner and loss twice in recent years. You have been where he is and felt the pain of being alone. It is testament to your kind nature you canrecognise it in others and realise your own grief is only part of the picture of loss. Its that kind of compassion that makes families like yours so wonderful, pulling together in stead of apart.