What a lovely surprise to receive this message from WordPress last night: "Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com! You registered on WordPress.com one year ago! Thanks for flying with us. Keep up the good blogging!" It is indeed an auspicious occasion, and I am very grateful to have readers and followers of the blog, on this … Continue reading First Anniversary of The Holly Tree Tales Blog
Writing A Blog
A Catch-Up With Readers
Dear Readers, Today I thought it would be a good idea to stop a while and say thank you to those who have been kind enough to take an interest in my Blog, and who have so willingly 'signed up' to follow The Holly Tree Tales, either as fellow bloggers or via personal email updates. Having finally … Continue reading A Catch-Up With Readers
Wednesday blog confusion
I wrote a small piece. I 'illustrated' it with photographs. I tried publishing it at once. It looked fine. I looked the next day; it looked gross. I tried again, adjusting everything. It looked fine. For half an hour. Then, again, it looked gross. I had heard that it is best to post large photographs. I … Continue reading Wednesday blog confusion
Monday morning Blog potholes
It is the start of a new week and I would love to be able to find the answers to a few questions on the physical workings of le Blog, by having someone real and three dimensional show me the way. Yesterday I posted a blurb (about Ifafa) and struggled to get it to look like … Continue reading Monday morning Blog potholes
Gentle progress on the Blog structure
Well, believe it or not, I have finally managed to create additional Menu headings for The Holly Tree Tales ... After weeks of attempting to do this by myself (both of my tech savvy children away and colleagues scant right now) and making all manner of errors, I have once more achieved a shift in the growth direction. What … Continue reading Gentle progress on the Blog structure
Frustration … and being frozen in the spotlight
When this post was originally written, on Tuesday 20 January 2015, I could not find my way to publish it, having lost all sense of technological direction! I have returned to the previously blank page today, Friday 27 March 2015, and edited it ... this time adding the original script. Its confusing nature reflects the mental agony I was … Continue reading Frustration … and being frozen in the spotlight
An Initial Welcome
["The Holly Tree Tales" was registered with WordPress on Thursday 1 January 2015, and received its first post on Sunday 4 January. This post is an edited version of my original, which I forgot to save and deleted in error, when I posted this version two weeks later.] Welcome to my brand new blog, “The Holly Tree … Continue reading An Initial Welcome
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