Banners on the top of the page? Is it Sunday, which is the only day for medals, but yes, well done, Soutie! Like the sneaky advertisements, Bearsy!
I thought I’d let you know I had noticed them, lest you feel your efforts are in vain.
Banners on the top of the page? Is it Sunday, which is the only day for medals, but yes, well done, Soutie! Like the sneaky advertisements, Bearsy!
I thought I’d let you know I had noticed them, lest you feel your efforts are in vain.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Thank you, Ma’am! 😳
I am perfectly prepared to ignore accusations of being a creep 😉 Just try it, and you will be marmelised or toasted.
It was worth the effort, Sir! 🙂
Thanks for the plug Bearsy. Now to see if it makes a diffference!
I am hoping that as this site grows up, more people will blog on their own pages and we can skip around between them. This is like the sitting room, a nice shared space but we can all have our own studios that come off the main hub. I am looking forward to Boadicea establishing a local history one centred on south London.
Is, I have yet to visit your boudoir but I must warn you that cats make me sneeze uncontrollably until I am coddled and fed Beluga caviar for hours on end. See ya.
Don’t worry Janus. Cat in the virtual world is no problem for allergy sufferers. Unlike in the real world where he is shedding his winter coat and leaving trails of fur everywhere. Anyway, no cats in my last blog. No boats either. I’m disappointed John Mackie hasn’t posted more on his holidays, but I’ve rather ground to a halt writing about mine too.
Funnily enough, Isobel, I disagree. I think some of your posts on your own site would be of interest here; I loved your description of your choral evening, and I think it deserves a wider audience.
Well if this audience visited other pages it would have a wider audience Araminta!
I think it’s easy to get a bit lazy and just see what’s on here instead of having a wander around what else WordPress has to offer.;)
I’ve tried using the my comments button in my dashboard which is great for tracking posts you are following and have commented on, except it only shows a few. I think there must be a way of scrolling down, but I can’t see how to do it. Any help from the techies?
Perhaps I am just lazy, Isobel, or lacking in time.
Re the comments button, give me a moment and I’ll explore.
Just checked the My Comments, Isobel and it only shows the more recent ones. No way I can see to show the history, It does include comments on here and my own WordPress page though.
Araminta, I’m sure you aren’t lazy. Maybe I am a bit more restless than some.
Thanks for looking at My Comments thingy. It should be very good if one could scroll down, and the blurb about it sounds like one should be able to. I think that it might be the closest thing to the rolling comments sidebar on MyT that i’ve found here. Maybe another look in the light of day.
Ara hello…yes, the banner is eye catching. But it make me feel more at home…;)
Isobel; hi…I just read your blog on the concert. Excellent stuff. I couldn;t figure out how to leave a comment! I agree with Ara; put it up here ! 😉
Not putting it here! if you are signed in WordPress you should be able to leave a comment easily.
Lor luvvaduck.
No chance! I reckon most people only read my history bits after they’ve run out of things to say on all the other posts! I really don’t think many would be bothered to click on a link to take them elsewhere, least of all for a history lesson! And I also don’t think I’d get the interplay of personalities on a single-issue site.
So, I shall carry on sticking my wares under people’s noses here, where they have to walk around them to ignore them… 🙂
Nonsense, Boadicea. I certainly find your history posts interesting, but then I would, wouldn’t I?
Yes, though, I don’t think a single issue site would attract the same interest. I would certainly put more effort into posting here; my own site is a repository for a very few posts that I am saving from MyT, or those that I feel are not of general interest. Others may feel differently of course, but I think it is better to encourage a wider range of interests here.
Araminta! That was a bit tongue in cheek!
But I rather think that with people batting backwards and forwards from here to ?there? most won’t bother to go whizzing off to other sites. I suspect, like me, they prefer to emerge from one post, see what’s happening on another and go straight there. It’s simply simpler 🙂
Actually, it wasn’t in the slightest bit tongue in cheek, Boadicea. I have mentioned before that you have revived my interest in the subject and I have bothered to do some research in order to comment on your posts, hopefully intelligently.
I seriously enjoy your posts.
The “I would, wouldn’t I?” was because there are few areas in which I can claim some knowledge, but history, albeit many years ago, is about the only one!
Boadicea is gardening. It was her own comment which she referred to as ‘tongue in cheek’, not yours, Araminta. 😀
Oh, blimey, thanks for the clarification, Bearsy. Heavens, how difficult is communication sometimes. I blame it on the late hour!
But yes; I can’t cope with too much dashing around. It makes me feel tired; better to have it all in one place.
Night all, and thanks for your comments. Hello Claire!
I think this attempt to drag the DNMyT crowd off to other blogs is both ill-timed and a touch disloyal. Lets’ get this place humming before we dilute the campaign – p-lease!
I agree with Janus, though ‘disloyal, may be a touch strong. I too am using my own blog more as an archive than anything else. Much better to post here and let people have at it 🙂
I’m with Janus and Bravo
To be honest I can’t be bothered, here’s a scenario, there are presently 17 authors on the blogroll, how do I know if there’s a new post or comment, open each and every one? No thanks, I’m all for the simple one page view that we have here.
Ok, Bravo, yes, ‘disloyal’ is too strong. Let’s say ‘distracting’.
OK guys, distracting advert removed – sorry Isobel, democracy at work.
Must admit I don’t understand the comments about disloyal and distracting. I am visiting this site and looking at the others on this blogroll and mine, and looking around WordPress to see what else interests me. I’d call it a more varied diet. So I am adding other pages to my blogroll, and taking them away when they fail to keep my attention.
Boadicea, I read your posts when I see you have posted. I don’t read all the posts here. Author and subject matter influence my choices. As I suspect they do for others too.
I think the difference, Isobel, is that you want to interact with the however many millions of posters on WordPress, whilst the rest of us are happy (?-!) to interact with the maybe 200 active posters (if that) on MyT, those here and maybe one or two other sites. That being so, we prefer to stick with the sites we know rather than go whizzing around WordPress trying to find other sites. It’s just a different approach.
My comment was meant to be tongue in cheek, Isobel! But, thanks – that’s really encouraging. 🙂
I rarely wrote any posts on MyT, and my only attempt at a historical piece was written on someone else’s post in response to a question… and I vowed I’d never do it again. Posting here is a novel experience – and it’s fun – especially since I know that at least two people will read me! Joke Flag!
Is, please don’t be offended. Nothing personal at all, just a point of view. 8)
At no stage did a call the notice for other members blogs ‘distracting’ and neither did I wish for its removal.
I just ignored it, I’ve mentioned my reasons for not traipsing around WordPress or anywhere else, I’d be happy if it returned for a couple of days and Isobel (or others) gave us a bit of feedback.
Oh, I give up.
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Ha Ha 🙂
Boadicea, i’m a journalist, naturally curious. At first I found WordPress overwhelming, so big. Now i’ve started to get a slight hang of it and I’m enjoying exploring. I do enjoy the camaraderie and familiarity of this page and I like having my own space. I want the best of both worlds. and do keep writing the historical stuff! I was told a story about rhubarb and Camberwell today that I want to check out. Oh must nip back to your post and see if you have added anything.
janus, not offended by anything bar you calling me ‘Is’ twice. Not a name I answer to.
Soutie, just looked at the stats and i do have a bit of a spike for yesterday. Yet again one of my ‘referrers’ is cheaptravelstyle.com/travel-trends/20… It crops up over and over but I don’t see why. Anyone got any ideas?
I don’t have the time to keep going from site to site. I have checked a few and found them too ‘one subject’. Prefer the variety on one site, ie here.
CO I am cut to the quick!
isobel
Bearsy says I should have said why I never wrote again. I was asked whether I thought Mary I deserved the title ‘Bloody’. I thought she probably did and gave my reasons. Another blogger asserted that Elizabeth was far worse – I said I’d get back to him. I spent a few days writing a piece… checking my figures, and packing a mass of information in the least number of words – so as not to bore the pants off everyone. It took a fair amount of time.
The anti-Elizabeth guy never showed up again, and the person who asked the original question had his own answer – didn’t like mine, ranted at me and never spoke to me again… Then there were the ‘rest’ who ignored the history, got the knives out, as only those on MyT can, and shredded me personally …
I rather hope John Mackie reads this… his very first comment to me (on another post) was that he’d liked what I had written. I owe him a big hug for that one!
Interesting, Boadicea, but how typical of MyT! Equally typical of Mr Mackie to appreciate what you had written.
Interesting. A historical version of the arguments that rage on other subjects today on MyT. Fixed views.
I can’t remember what I was reading, maybe Alison Weir, who reckined that had edward VI lived he would have been a tyrannical persecutor of catholics, Roman and Anglican.
Have you read Wolf Hall yet?
John Mackie bought it for his wife on my recommendation he says, and it has earned him Brownie points.
There is nothing new about the ‘arguments’ on MyT, it’s just that with fewer and fewer ‘reasonable’ bloggers posting there is less and less chance of escaping them.
Certainly David Starkey’s view was that had Edward survived he would have been a tyrant – full stop!
I haven’t read it yet – but I’ll keep an eye out for it in the book-shops. Brisbane is pretty poorly served with both book-shops and libraries compared to Adelaide. Add to that books are published here somewhat later than in Europe, they carry GST (VAT of 10%) and, despite all the gumph about Free Trade, the prices are kept artificially high to protect Ozzie authors…
‘Our Kev’ has just refused to remove the ‘protection’ – that along with a few other factors is making me seriously reconsider where I will place my vote at the next election….