The difference an hour makes
Posted by contentedsouls on 02/05/2014
We are an hour ahead of you – it’s amazing what a difference that makes
I hadn’t noticed before how certain things structured my day. Specifically to be showered and sat down to eat breakfast in time to listen to pop master; preparing the veg for the evening meal whilst listening to the afternoon play and washing up the evening meal whilst listening to The Archers – and what a shocker that’s been; sorry, I digress. Saturday was always a bummer as, if I didn’t get up early, I’d miss the beginning of Brian Matthews’ Sounds of the Sixties. Most of my TV watching tended to be the drama on the 9 – 10 pm slot.
Morning Radio 2 and the afternoon play has gone – it cuts into the day too much when there are so many new things to see and it all uses precious internet. We eat later and so I still wash up to The Archers (or just leave it for a bit). Saturdays are glorious as I can stagger out of bed at 8.45 am and hear all of Brian’s show – that’s my weekly Brit treat now (sad, I know but we’ve let go of most ‘stuff’ now). We’ve abandoned most TV as drama now finishes at 11.00 pm and, by the time we’ve sorted dogs and read in bed for awhile it’s just too late. Holby is still good as that’s now 9-10pm
The Motley crew set off again yesterday to ‘do’ the outdoor monuments, but it was expensive and didn’t seem much different to those we’d already done so we went into town to get our bits of shopping only, of course, it was long lunch and everything was closed. I can’t seem to get it into my thick head that everything shuts down from 12.00 ’til 2.00 or, in some cases, 2.30pm, so we had to go and get a beer whilst we waited for everything to re-open. Except it didn’t, ’cause Thursday is early closing; even places like Lidl. So we had another beer.
The pretty canal-side frontage
We were going to go to the Colruyt supermarket today to stock up on wine as recommended by our European boating friends but it was a long way out and the wind is horrible today so we abandoned that, and my kayak trip was also a right off due to the weather. Instead Debbie and I just walked into Lidl ( via Jimmy Hillfit – or something like that – Debbie despairs of me I think). To summarise prices; I think beer is about the same, perhaps a little dearer; wine is loads cheaper for a much better quality. Meat and salad is cheaper; vegetables much more expensive – the quality though is superb. Eating out is very expensive (8 – 10 Euros for a cheese omelette) but, so far, we have been exclusively on the tourist trail so we don’t have much to compare to – quantity and quality have, again, been excellent.
Now I need a little help here please from my fellow bloggers. Would all of you with Facebook accounts, that aren’t doing so already, please please please accept the link to Facebook – it’s free for you and we can read your blogs for free on Facebook.
Secondly, does anyone using WordPress know how to reduce the size of the photographs? They are coming up huge. The only way I can make them smaller is to crop them down on my camera first. On Blogger I could chose the picture sizes but I can’t suss it on WordPress
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indigodream said
I wouldn’t worry about the Archers at the moment – it’s all gone a bit weird with the Tom/Kirsty storyline – characters not acting in character as it were!
Sue, nb Indigo Dream
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Kevin TOO said
Oh I don’t agree Sue, Tom’s always been a self-centred little git… LOL
Jill… Half-day closing… how quaint… that used to be Wednesday in Derby (many years ago)… LOL
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contentedsouls said
Not normally one for sitting on the fence but I do have to agree that although Tom has always been a self-centred little git, the storyline doesn’t ring true. It’s like the chief writer has gone on holiday and the office junior thought they’d throw all the balls in the air!
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Brian Holt said
Before I used Live writer for my blog I resized the photos with http://www.axiomx.com/picsizer.htm With that you can resize a whole file full in one shot.
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contentedsouls said
Thanks for that Brian, I’ll need an internet cafe (very few and far between here) to download the program. I’ll try it when we get to Brugge. I’d have thought there was something within WordPress like there is within Blogger though.
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Severner Willow said
What do you mean by accept the link on Facebook? I’m friends with Graham on Facebook and post links tk my blog there but I confess to being a little confused about what you mean! Amy
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Severner Willow said
And regarding photos if you are posting from a laptop when writing the post you can click on the photo once it’s uploaded and edit the size by clicking tbe configure button. More http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-settings/#within-posts
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suenp said
You can crop, rotate, flip, and resize your images in the media library. Look for the media icon on the dashboard and click on library. From there find the image you want to resize, click on that and click edit. You will be able to resize the image there. If that doesn’t work let me know.
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contentedsouls said
Sue I will try out your re-sizing suggestions. When you publish your blog it offers you the option to link to Facebook, Twitter etc. Please click the link to Facebook x
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suenp said
No mine doesn’t as I host it on my own server and not on the .com site. I’ll look into putting a plugin on to do that.
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suenp said
Umph I am in blonde mood again.. I don’t know what you mean by “please please please accept the link to Facebook”. Do you mean click the link on your blog or for me to get a plugin that puts my blog posts on my timeline?
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contentedsouls said
Amy you are one of the people who does post the link from your blog to Facebook, but not everyone does. Thank you, I shall try out the configure button tomorrow. I do post from a lap top.
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Greygal said
Could you let me have new phone number and remind me of your email address? You can get me at sarah AT networkjabber.com. Think we might have a day trip around 3rd w/e in June, poss Sat 21st – stick car on train and come and find you somewhere in Northern France presumably. Get your English goodies order in. Will confirm plans nearer time! And you thought you could shake off all your old stalkers…ha, think again! The British are coming!
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contentedsouls said
G has replied by e-mail and confirm 22nd (or anytime really) would be good. If you’re serious about Brit goodies we’ll arrange Tesco, Ocado, Sainsbury AND Waitrose deliveries – hope you have a big car!!!! Seriously though a few bits will be nice. Sooo looking forward to seeing you – should be in Northern France or thereabouts.
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