Boasting alert!

Need to think about this. I don't think you can have a profile that is not attached to a Gran/Grandad so that would not work. I suppose we could invent a gran who is called Hattie or similar, but she would still have to join. I can't see GNHQ accepting an application from a Hattie Milliners-Box, address Top of the Wardrobe, email [email protected]. And we'd still have the problem of lots of different people trying to upload photographs.

You can set up a Google file which can be shared by other named people. Will have a look and see how that is done. Could be more complicated than the map.

Why do I get into these things?

you are right, Elegran It's all rather complicated. Thanks for your advice. The answer to your question: because you are clever.

glamma Big congratulations! It's wonderful when you know that the partner is the right one So happy for you and your 'at!

OK, would someone please send me a private email with their home email address on, and I will then share a file called "Hat showcase" with them from Google. I think that the email from Google will tell you how to access the file and insert photographs into it.

I shall try inserting one of mine first. No hat, I am afraid.

Well, I have successfully uploaded a photo to "Hat showcase". It was pretty easy (easier than the map challenge) but the photo ended up too big for the page. Then I discovered that at the bottom right-hand corner you can click on the picture and move that corner in to shrink it to the size you want.

lovely news, glamma. And congratulations to the happy couple. That's something to look forward to even if it's not imminent. And you do have plenty of time to search for that perfect hat.

Elegran Where do I find "Hat showcase"...please.

[umm] I fear that I'm far too dim to get my head around this!

Congratulations glamma what happy news for you! How exciting thinking about a new outfit, a new hat is a "must" after all! The last "proper" hat I wore to a wedding was to that of my DD 10 years ago . I only ever get to wear a woolly hat for walking in the winter or a summery hat in case the sun comes out in the summer!

soop I think you need to PM Elegran (see her post at 14.30).

You can do it, soop Here's how.

If you send me your home email address, I will send you (through Google Documents) an email saying that I have shared the file "Hat showcase" with you. In that email will be instructions how to go about it. Following these should be clear. I say should be because sometimes these automatic emails assume that you know what they are talking about before you start. I can't tell you exactly what it will say because I don't know - it wisnae me that wrote it.

When you try to look at it, it may say that you have to invent a username and password for yourself for that file, and then it may even say you need a Google username as well - to use Google Docs at all!. Both of them are easy enough. As usual there are forms to fill in.

If you get stuck, email me. I will try to phone you to help!

Wow!I knew you would come up with something Ele.No doubt soop has disappeared for the night now .I can't do anything because I am going to Sicily in the morning. I shall be back in a week and hope to see lots of hats on display

Grannylin - I hope you let us know about Sicily and post some photos. It is one of few larger islands in the Med I have not yet visited.

Greatnan you can't win em all..you all appear to me such a positive family group and you must be so proud to have played a part in generating so much shared love and achievement. There will always be offspring who blame their parents for all their ills - my DH has a habit of sitting on his hands bewailing lost opportunities back in the 60s when he was dominated by his narrow minded negative (religiously fanatical) parents. He is now nearly 70 and has achieved much, but it is his parents he blames for not achieving more! Its crazy. Your daughter is alive and lets hope she will one day see that she played a huge part in your rupture and that she could have met you half way to make your relationship work.

speki such wise words.

May I share the latest good news from our lovely granddaughter who is reading psychology at Bristol uni'. She has a new job as a Care Assistant at a home for disabled adults. She needs 100 hours experience as part of her course. Helping disabled people to enjoy a better quality of life, is what she set her heart on doing from her early teens. She is one of the kindest and most understanding young women that we know. Added to which, being in her company is like basking in the warmth of sunshine. I shall look out a photo of her. A little later, I shall add it to the album.

Have uploaded a lovely image of my granddaughter and her father [my second son.]

It sounds as if she takes after you, soop. for you both.

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soop lovely pics, you certainly got the hang of enlarging them didn't you?

Yay!

soop sending congrats to your DGD she sounds a sweetheart (wonder who she takes after)

Snap, Soop! My grand-daughter has just finished the second year of her nursing degree in Nelson, New Zealand and she has supported herself by working in an old people's home. She loves it so much she is seriously considering specialising in geriatric care. She is a good pianist and the people in the home love it when they have a singsong round the piano. I have told her she is booked to be my carer if I ever need one!

Thank you for your kind thoughts, Speki. I am afraid my daughter's mental health is not likely to improve as she has no intention of giving up her drug abuse. We have not had an argument, as this suggests that both parties are involved. I have never shown her the least hostility by word or deed - not even any criticism of the way she is treating me.

Greatnan If only my grand-daughter could be my personal carer [when I finally stop functioning on all cylinders]...she, like your grand-daughter, is a treasure. My grand-daughter plays the flute. She really doesn't need any "props" to be entertaining because her kind nature and enthusiasm for life, is infectious. When at school, she instigated an anti-bullying campaign. She was brilliant at mediating...as you can tell, I'm dead proud of her.

Just heard that my lovely DD2 has passed her final GP exams, even managing 100% on one paper....so fingers up to her awful, male Maths teacher who greeted us, cruelly, one parents' evening with : 'oh dear, she's not like your others is she?'