I love being involved in new challenges, and Steph from Scale Simple has started a new challenge, coinciding with Canadian Thanksgiving! What a lovely idea! She sent a little note to me inviting me to take part, so here goes!
The Challenge rules are simple
*Share this image in your bog post
*Write about 5 people in your life you are thankful for
*Write about 5 things in 2015 that you are thankful for
*Spread the love and challenge 5 other blogs to take part
So here goes!
Five people I am thankful to have in my life…
Wow, this is quite hard, as there are so many people I feel thankful to have here in my life…
My Mum – my reason to become a hopefully good wife and mother. A woman who I have seen go through the ups and downs of life with dignity, and a true inspiration. Love you Mum! X
My Pops – my first hero. Isn’t a father always that? I feel thankful to have a dad like Pops, who has always put his family first, and taught me right from wrong, and how to cope with all manner of situations, in a calm manner. Love you Pops! X
My Hubby Dearest – I was indeed lucky to have met hubby when I did. He is truly the most wonderful person, and I see so much of my Pops in him. He loves me unconditionally, and I wouldn’t be anywhere without him. Love you Hubby Dearest!
My Lil Man – you came to us after such a journey. Not only am I thankful for having you in my life son, but I feel lucky that of all th twinkles in my eye, you were the one that came to us! Love you son! X
My Lil Princess – I am thankfu for my Lil Princess, you came and completed our family, after seeing two possible siblings leave mummy early, and go take their placin the sky, as stars. You are a little diva, but you are our little diva, and we wouldn’t t change you for anything…(though having you sleep through the night would be a good thing…!)
Five things in 2015 that I am thankful for
The continued support of my family – without them, I am nothing.
My friends – I don’t get to see my friends often… Life has made it hard, but no matter whether we are together physically or in spirit, they make my life easier to live.
My new job – it was earlier this year I was given the chance to finally take the step, and start teaching properly. I thank my Head for having the faith in me!
The chance to see my nephew – last year, I was made an aunt, a real one, for the first time, and I was aching to see my nephew. And finally, this year I got to see him, only for a few hours, but still… What an emotional time! And next week, still in 2015, I get a whole weekend with him! They live abroad, in Finland, you see, so I can’t just drive over to them…
My Blogily – I may have started this blog in 2014, but the real connections I made were cemented this year, and I come to the end of this year, with some new people who have gained a huge importance in my life. I am so thankful for the opportunity I have been given to read amazing writers work, and to write alongside them.
And now my Five (hopefully) Thankful Nominees!
Erika
Rich
Linda
Judy
Sandra
Happy Thanksgiving to all those celebrating on the 12th October!
The lovely Sue from the blog The Daily Echo invited me to write a guest post for her, and I was extremely honoured, and I have to say, a tad scared! If you are a regular reader of Sue’s blog, you know how amazingly she writes, and I don’t consider myself to have half the talent that she possesses!
Photo-fy Your Comments!
11 Oct 2015 70 Comments
by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Advice, Blog, Blog Post, Blog Tips, Blogger, Blogging, Help, Images in Comments
Can I just start this post by saying that I have absolutely no qualifications to guide anyone with regards to blogging! Whatever I have found out in the last 10+ months has been through asking members of my Blogily, and kind readers helping me out.
So, when the opportunity comes to help another, I am more than happy to try and pass on a gem or two of wisdom, if it helps!
Today, in my post about breakfast, Hugh, the reason for the post, was mystified as to how I managed to put an image into my comments! Then my lovely blog sis Judy also piped up that she would love to know how to do that too!
A polite request of a post with instructions from Hugh means I am here typing away!
Actually there is a bit of history to how I finally worked out one way to actually do this. I was as intrigued as Hugh and Judy a few months ago, seeing comments on my posts with images and gifs. My other Blog Sis Erika and I tried with no luck for ages to learn. We had help from many, but it just wasn’t working.
All we were being told was to find a picture and just use the URL… Copy and paste it into the comments section, and it would work… but it didn’t! There were many comments we were sending that would just show a jumble of letters, and URLs, but no image.
Then I got a pearl of wisdom from the Leibster Meister himself, Rib Rob of The V-Pub. It was possibly not the easiest way, but hey, it worked for us, and even though I don’t use it often, it is good to know!
So… basically the way I do this mega complex insertion of image into comments is…
… upload the image you wish to use in the comments to the WP Media album.
Then once there, get the details up of the image you want, and you will see an image URL box.
Here is a screen shot of the website Media view.
Or if you use Android, the screen looks like so…
Copy the URL and paste into the comment section, and this is the important bit!
Click into the URL text and remove the ‘s’ from the ‘https’ part of the URL at the beginning.
Then go ahead and press ‘send’, et voila! your image should appear in the comments section!
Go ahead and try it in the comments below, and we shall see if I am any good as an IT teacher, or whether I should just stick to Nursery teaching and smiling!
As I said before, there is probably much easier ways to do this, and if any of you wonderful Peeps know, be sure to share! But hey, it works, and if you are not technically minded, (that’ll be me then!), this is a fool proof way!
I hope it helps!
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