I have just almost completed - twice - a blog post about FR, his month-long project in Granada, the importance of this project and how good it has felt and how proud I am and all sorts of other things. And both times, Mozilla Firefox crashed out on me and didn't save what I'd written!
I give up on that one for today.
And as tomorrow is December, I'll leave my hair alone and continue on a more cheerful note. As all our Christmas decorations are still in Leon, Romy and I have spent the afternoon making an advent 'calendar' - a family must - the countdown to Christmas. I don't want to buy more - this year, less will be more. So we have diligently been saving up empty toilet rolls, which we've painted white and gold, sparkled and glittered, cut in half and stapled up one end and put numbers on from 1 to 24 - though to be honest, we've only saved enough to get to 20 thus far. (However, the nature of the thing means we'll have more empty rolls before the 21st, so I'm not worried.) We bought little wooden pegs and painted them gold and have strung some silver ribbon across a dark blue card, sprinkled with stars and the odd cloud - and the whole thing is now hanging by the door, each little painted holder containing a small chocolate each for the children. FR has the camera so I can't show you. I'll try and remember to capture it - it's so wonderfully homemade-looking that it makes me smile every time I pass it! Now posted as a {this moment}
There, I'll go and look at it again now and forget my irritation at the previous failed attempts to post. I have now finished this one and it's saved....Welcome to December!
Poor Annie :-( I can feel your frustration from here. My solution to this is to write my post in Word, then copy and paste it into Blogger. I'll probably tweak it before publishing, but at least if Blogger or the browser crashes before publication, all my hard work doesn't go down the plughole.
ReplyDeleteYour homemade Advent calendar sounds lovely and I look forward to a photo when you get the camera back.
Oh dear... our modern conveniences can be so terribly inconvenient. Courage, my friend, courage! Wishing you a December full of silver, gold, stars, ribbon, good health, and time to enjoy everything before you.
ReplyDeleteoh, yes to Perpetua's solution. I've been reckless lately, but I used to write in one format then copy and paste to Blogger, saving frequently.
ReplyDeleteI did think after the second crash that I should do something in Word, as you suggest Perpetua - but I enjoy the immediacy of pressing the 'publish' button on a download of thoughts - it's an ENFP thing and I am so disorganised that I think possibly it's an irreparable thng! I'll try one more time my way first....
ReplyDeleteThank you Natalie - I'm over it quickly and just now, I'm happy that it's silver, gold, starts and ribbons time!
Axxxxx
I'm sorry? 'Information Manager'??? ;-)
ReplyDeletePrevious life, Andy. :-)
ReplyDeleteI do the write in Word thing too, and then just paste and post. I just got fed up with losing stuff. Love the advent calendar. And well done Cesar on whatever it is that has your missus so proud.
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