Learning to Blog--a new 'marathon' challenge

Of course I haven't any clues, GrandmaMiney! I only Googled the quote out of interest, and I noted that you'd only said it was attributed to Geothe. As Nonu commented, it's interesting - that's all!

Sounds more like Walt Disney.

Or a well known tv programme showing on Saturday nights on BBC1.

Goethe - sp!

Oh the joy of blogging. Have a blogger blog. Thought I would try setting up a Wordpress blog. Considered slitting throat. Went back to blogger - not easy, not intuitive, but a darn site less gratuitously vicious than Wordpress! And it let me have the name i wanted.

I agree about the 'joy of blogging', sort of! I tried Wordpress and didn't find it too bad, but I am frustrated by not being able to control the format, type face, etc. And I've had trouble getting words to wrap around the pix. As I'm such a new girl to all this it's all trial and error (and more error than trial)

I toyed with the idea of Tumblr because someone said it was much easier. But my son (who knows my propensity for wordorrhoea) thought Wordpress would be better for me. I went on to Tumblr, but found it even harder and such a hard sell of add-ons that it put me off, so I slunk back to Wordpress.

I've at least started 'to blog', but I've set myself some tasks. Now I have to get on with them. I hope to be able to post some progress on Project 1 by tomorrow evening--or Sunday at latest.

I agree about the trouble with usernames--the first 10 I chose were all in use already. As I love autumn and its fruitfulness and its juiciness (and as I am sometimes known to have a glint in my eye!) I settled on:
autumnglint.wordpress.com

I've not investigated blogger--yet, tell me more

The blog is up and running! It is such fun and doesn't really matter if anyone reads it or not--it is my web log, and helps me to write a few words, put up a few pictures and set some goals.

I now have to try to achieve them.
Just have to see.
www.autumnglint.wordpress.com

Well done Minney .

I've got this rug GrandmaMiney. I started it about three years ago. Made the mistake of letting DH near it. Needless to say, he buxxxxxd it up. Can't face it now.

If I send it to you GM, you can finish it.

Have they forgiven us for what we did to Dresden?

I don't think the statue would be quite "strong" enough for Gaza. Certainly not for Horishima. But I understand what you are saying.

Nice blanket and well done for tacking Wordpress. I decided to stay with Blogger and am beginning to get to grips with it a bit better.
So here is a blog about why vitamin C supplements are a waste of money. I am posting one about juice very shortly.

appealingltoreasonblog.blogspot.co.uk

jess "There is, they conclude, a small reduction in the severity and duration of colds in those taking regular supplements." That would do for me!

Thank you all for visiting www.autumnglint.wordpress.com
I haven't posted today (yet) or yesterday, I'm too busy trying to meet my targets! I sewed a strip yesterday, and I'm about to start on today's strip.

Fingers crossed it will be finished this week...then I can move on to Viet Nam, (my Project 2)

j05 if you put the blanket away for another 10 years it's just possible something will give you the urge to finish it. It's taken me nearly 20! So long in fact that the colours are almost 'in' again

Re: the point about Dresden--when I visited Coventry and took that pic, I read that, soon after WWII, as part of the Reconciliation process a group of young people from Coventry went to Dresden to help re-build a hospital.

Re: Vitamin C, I've taken it every winter for years, and get hardly any colds. I was told by a biochemist about 10 years ago that its effect is greater if you take it with zinc. So I do!

JessM
Like your blog--very professional.
When discussing research, please could you also take a look at who funds the research (i.e. the research that gets published)?

It is an area that has intrigued me for years, but not many places will risk looking at this angle.

Good point Grandmaminey - though I don't think it always matters. It would if, say, the research was promoting cranberry juice as the cure for all ills. And funded by cranberry producers co-op...

I think I need to take myself in hand and DO something!
Great to read the Blogs of Grans who have, inspirational too.
Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life.... now where have I heard that before?
Which unfinished item shall I tackle first?
I think I'll go and make a nice and write a list..... night night

Go on Oldgreymare when you've had a year of post-retirement 'rest' it might be the time to start a ROML list (!) I think it was when I was reading a book about Sissinghurst/Vita Sackvill-West and her husband Harold Nicolson, that it mentioned he had a ROML border--an herbaceous border that was going to be the Rest of his Life's Work.
(I sneaked a peek at your biog and see you've read Wolf Hall so you might need to read Bring up the Bodies before you start blogging. I thought it was even better than Wolf Hall )

This is such a great time: new things to learn, but also so many things to look back on; enjoy the good memories and learn from the not-so-good.
Also I think it's interesting to see how apparently insignificant things actually enabled something unforseen to develop later.
Such a great harvest time for us...whilst planting seeds for the next generations. Don't you think?
I seem to have been recalling WWII memories for my 8 yr old grandson to recount at school. This is the topic for his class, this term. I feel a future Blog in the pipeline.

Hasn't it also been said that on your deathbed (Pace, all those who think I'm always banging on about old age and death) it's the things you haven't done that you regret--not the things you have. I just don't want to find myself getting there and asking St Peter to wait a mo, as I've haven't finished my to-do list.

Hence www.autumnglint.wordpress.com now.

Sleep tight all you lovely gransnetters of Ovaltine (or camomile and spiced apple, my favourite bedtime tipple at the moment)

(Another strip of the blanket sewn tonight--I'll post again tomorrow)

GrandmaMiney 7th year post-retirement and counting!

Actually, looking back, I suppose can tick a few items off the list not least tracing my Italian Grandfather (Learning a bit of Italian in order to visit his birthplace and having a 'Who do you think you are' moment while leafing thro' a large tome containing family records for the village.)

I think my periods of inactivity outnumber my active periods and I want to redress the balance.

I usually try to set deadlines and feel a real sense of achievement when they have been met and a real sense of failure when they are not.
I suppose the answer is to set realistic targets.

I bought and read 'Bring out the Bodies' as soon as it was published (I am trying to collect all Booker winners in hardback to pass on to GC! altho' I didn't know it was a winner at the time.) and thoroughly enjoyed it.... looking forward to the next and final book.

That's another thing to add to my list..... update my profile!!!!!

Sounds as if you're definitely on the right lines Oldgreymare! Have you read Lessons from my Life No 1 on www.autumnglint.wordpress.com ?

The thing I find good about this stage of my life is that I have time to spot the recurring patterns and reactions over time. Some of them are reassuring--other bits are scary, and some reactions make me cringe.

Whether I manage to learn from them is another matter, but I thought that if I start identifying them, I may be able to work on the negative aspects. It does not always work, but at least the awareness and intention is there!

Please leave a comment on my blog and let me know your ideas.

Today I've got to get the blanket finished, I guess blogs should not get boring!

I am happy to drift along contentedly at the moment, and sod the lot of it.

I will give my uncompleted rug kit to Oxfam. Someone else can finish it.

Sounds like you've got your life sorted j05--and I guess Oxfam will be grateful for the rug kit

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Although there are storm clouds in the east, the sun is still shining

Maybe I'll make a Zen blog...