22/11/2008 by Lord Fly of Bogland.

   Click on this one for a laugh!

Greetings from Lord Fly,

 Barbara made mention of the perceived difficulty in uploading photographs to the blog. 

Happily this is not so, and I will explain the method.

First, click the “Write a post” tag as normal.

Scroll down the page until you see the line “File”. 

At the end of this line is the “Browse” tag.Click on this and locate your “Pictures” or equivalent Folder.

Open this folder and find the photo you wish to upload. 

Click on the photo and then on the “Open” tag on the Pictures or equivalent folder.  This will place the location of the photo in the “File” line on your blog.

Then click on the “Upload” tag just below the “Browse” button on your post. 

The photo then appears in a new field below your post. 

Leave the black dots in the “Thumbnail”  and “File” sections as they are and click on “Send to Editor”.

The photo then moves up to the Post area.

22/11/2008 by Ted.

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22/11/2008 by Ted.

Click on the tree to see it sparkle.

Hi families,

Don’t the weeks fly round?  Today I woke up and it was Saturday again just like it was last week - but this one seems to have got here very quickly.  It feels like “Sunday, Monday ….. miss a few …..  Saturday”.  And now the shortest day and Winter Holiday are creeping up at a great rate of knots.

Nice to have a post from Barbara this week.  Hi kid!  Lord Fly was delighted to explain the colouring and font size thingy - he has hardly stopped since saying what a nice lady you are.  I think that is because you wrote something on the blog.  I was speaking to another family member this week who said that they don’t blog because no-one else does and they feel (like Lord Fly and myself sometimes) that we are just blogging to ourselves.  I know a lot of family members look at the posts but it would be really nice if everyone just said, “Hi, it’s me” now and again. Which reminds me of an audio recording our dad (Edward Sherratt) left years ago, and the details of which I will now thrill you - or not - with.

The local C of E vicar noticed that, every morning, a young chap named Jim popped into the church, stayed there about two minutes and then popped out again and went on his way.  After a while the vicar was so curious about the daily occurrence that he waited outside the church one morning and accosted Jim as he came out.

“Hi Jim”, he said. “I notice you pop into the church every morning for a minute or so and then pop  out again and go on your way.  What do you pop in for?”

“I go to pray”, Jim replied.

“But you don’t take long”, said the vicar.

“Well”, said Jim, “I go in and say ‘Hello Jesus.  It’s Jim’, and then I come out again”.

Satisfied, the vicar left it at that.

A while later the vicar noticed that Jim was not making his morning visit to the church.  He made enquiries and discovered that Jim had been taken into hospital.  He decided to pay him a visit.

At the ward he got into conversation with the sister who told him that she felt sad for Jim because the vicar was his very first visitor since coming in.  The vicar felt sad too.

During their conversation the vicar mentioned the lack of visitors visiting Jim.

“Oh, but I do get visited”, said Jim.

“Really?”, said the vicar.

“Oh yes”, said Jim. “Each morning Jesus comes,  pops his head around the door and says ‘Hello, Jim, It’s Jesus’”.

Nice, eh? And that really made Jim’s day.

And that accompanies my favourite saying which is “If you see someone without a smile - give them one of yours”. Ahhhhh!

Anyway, that is all it takes very often, so  why not just stick your head above the parapet, take a look  at us all and say, “Hi, its me!” It will work wonders like it did for Jim.

My love to everyone ,

Ted.

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22/11/2008 by Andrew.

Hello everyone