One of the considerations that determine which posts, casualties of the migration of my site, I attempt to recover, is pointed up by the statistics indicating which offerings have been visited each day. I am not told who has been the viewer but I do check on the relevant posts. The last comments on
were made in the year of its birth. Whoever viewed it yesterday will have been disappointed in the absence of key pictures. By the process of consulting my iMac Photos matched to the date of this first publication, and converting the Classic to the Blocks edit I was able to insert them by following the text. I also changed the header picture.
Another consideration is slowly working my way through the first months of our residence here, and reminiscing about what we have had to do. This one I have also changed to category Garden:
Before lunch I posted https://derrickjknight.com/2023/04/22/droll-tales-25/
Elizabeth visited briefly this afternoon, and later I watched the Women’s Six Nation rugby matches between England and Ireland, and between Scotland and Italy.
This evening we dined on spicy piri-piri chicken; boiled new potatoes; tender runner beans, and a moist melange of peppers and onions.
I admire your fortitude Derrick
Thank you so much, Sheree
It’s a commitment which is so appreciated
Thank you very much, Gary
Sounds like a busy day, with hopefully some nice rewards.
Thank you very much, Pat
I admire your determination and your discipline as well. You put a lot of time in your blog. However, and please forgive me, I have set myself a time limit for my daily online time (1 1/2 hours for blogging, news and business) and because of that, I can’t look at all your old posts, which is my loss. Somehow my day doesn’t seem to have enough hours for everything I would like to do.
And while I am in confession mood, I always wished there would be a family tree with names on your blog, because (and that’s probable only my problem) I am really bad with names, which means until someone decides to give people numbers (because I am really good with numbers) I am doomed. 🙂
Green beans and potatoes, you can’t go wrong with that.
He has a wonderful, comprehensive family tree, it was here just a week or so back.
Thanks very much, Bridget. Because I have no other employment I can spend more time on this. If you can manage to fit in this post, it has the information you are looking for. https://derrickjknight.com/2014/01/05/my-branch-of-the-family-tree/ Florence’s little family now living with us have not yet been added.
Wonderful! Your hard work and stick-to-it-ness is so worth it!
On the first blog you shared here…A Matter of Scale…I saw a comment from our LBoB…Brian… 🙂
I still miss him so VERY much here on WP! ❤️
(((HUGS))) ❤️
PS…Your meal sounds delicious! We were thinking of fixing breakfast for our evening meal. 🙂
He pops up on mine too, Carolyn, such a character! 🙂
Yes. 🙂 It’s always good to see him pop up. 🙂
Yes – I liked the old curmudgeon too. Thanks very much, Carolyn X
❤️ You’re welcome very much! 🙂
Another busy Admin day for you. I admire your perseverance, Derrick.
I spent almost my whole day searching for a new theme for Nan’s Farm. My site is looking dated, but I was unsuccessful in finding a replacement, despite trying them out on a dormant site of mine. I made such a mess of it, and now I almost daren’t try one on Nan’s Farm!
PS. Your comments are not getting through again! Goodness knows what’s happened this time!
I’m assuming it’s because of the updates that WordPress insist on carrying out and they’re not compatible with the browsers we use! ☹️
Dammit
Strangely, I received this one!
🙂
It came as a bit of a shock when Scotland actually won a rugby match.
I hope you watched it, Tootlepedal. Thanks very much
Your early gardening efforts were lots of work Derrick and it’s interesting to see how the garden was developed during those early years …
Thank you very much, Ivor
You may have mentioned and I may have missed your reasoning for transferring everything from Classic to Block. If you did could you link me to it. Please.
I have probably explained it in different posts, John. This is the story: I ran out of space for pictures on WordPress because I had not understood about resizing pictures. They would not let me increase it, so Peacock Computers migrated my site to derrickjknight.com. This took months, leaving my posts with pictures missing – in different ways. The earlier, Classic edits look okay, but if you click on an image to enlarge you get Nothing Here unless I convert to block. Other, later posts have the pictures missing altogether and I have to find them in my photo archives. That is as much as I can explain. Thank you very much.
Beautiful
Thank you very much, Vijay
You are steadily becoming a connoisseur of conversion.
Thanks very much, Uma
It seems like with all the post reorganizing you have all the material for a memoir assembled? That would make a wonderful book.
I noted Pauline’s comments. Those are treasures as she is no longer with us.
Thank you very much, Lavinia. That is what A Knight’s Tale is meant to be. I always get a heart tug when I see `Pauline’s comments and picture. She was always worried when my post was even late.
I don’t know what the blue flower is, but it’s very beautiful.
Thanks very much, John
So much work, Derrick, but it sounds like a good day.
I’m always struck by your community of readers.
Thank you so much, Merril
I am rather in awe of you going back and “upgrading” your blog posts.
Thanks very much, Dale
🙂
What a long and arduous job the conversion is, Derrick! I think it is definitely worth it as your posts are all so beautiful and interesting!
I still haven’t started using the block system and know that if I did I might have a similar task ahead of me or risk losing many of my old posts and photographs etc. I’m putting off the evil hour! I think I have reduced the size of my photos for some years now and I have also begun paying WP an exorbitant amount each year. I suppose that might make a difference?
Thanks very much, Clare. I just wish I’d known about resizing pictures.
You are a hard worker Derrick. Wishing you success.
Thank you very much, Rupali
It is a really full time job recovering all the photos!
It is. Thank you very much, Ribana
Derrick I too for years did not realise that we have to make our photos smaller… I was then told to use GIMP to decrease the size. My media library was well over 75% full, so for the past year I’ve been doing all my photos with GIMP but it all takes a lot more time. I also opened another free account with WordPress and moved some of my earlier post there, and I deleted some of the posts that were totally out of date and not so nice. I started using blocks some months ago and I like it but have not realised that this would affect photos in earlier posts, will go and check this out!
I hope it doesn’t cause you too much trouble, Agnes. Thank you very much
Thanks Derrick, it’s an ongoing progress…