Back to normal

Posted on December 31, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 2025, China, December, likes, New year, Old year, Peace, statistic, Views, WordPressLeave a comment

For some reason my stats shot up over December. I don’t know why but my account was being viewed by many people in China. My likes didn’t go up, just several thousand views each week.

Now things have quietened down, going back to what I would see as “normal”. I’m not bothered, I guess it doesn’t mean a lot to me, I’m not monetising this blog in any way, and if my posts are even slightly interesting then I’m pleased. I hope some of my thoughts have been taken in the friendly and peaceful manner that I meant them. Wherever you are, as the old year dwindles and the New year arrives, I wish you peace and tranquility, better times and the best life you can have. X

WordPress problem?

Posted on December 27, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Error message, Life, Memory, Problem, Reader, responding, Thumbs up, WordPress2 Comments

I keep getting a message when I try and like people’s posts….

“there is a problem with your request, please try again later”…

It’s annoying because I like to go through peoples posts on the reader section of WordPress and mark the ones I like. I’ve tried twice today but it still doesn’t seem to be working?

So for all of you who I would have liked here’s a thumbs up to you! 👍👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿

Who are you?

Posted on October 31, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged America, bots, China, Confused, Life, Questions, Statistics, Time, Why?, WordPressLeave a comment

I’m looking at my stats and I’m confused. Over 1000 people have been looking at my posts today. Usually it’s more like 67, what’s going on. This week it seems to be mainly American and last week it was China.

I wonder if this is real or bots? I can’t imagine my ramblings are sufficiently interesting to attract this level of scrutiny. Has anyone else had this experience? Will this continue or gradually ebb away?

So many questions, so much puzzlement? If anyone can answer or have I bored everyone enough yet?

Deleted photos

Posted on May 23, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Deleting, Life, Memory, Photos, Thinking, thousands, Time, WordPress, WordPress media libraryLeave a comment

I’ve got too many photos in my phone. It’s crept up to over 17000 and it’s hard to delete them. The personal ones are really hard to let go. I’m attached to so many of them. I’m not sure if I can wave them goodbye. They do hold me in the past. Tie me together like wrapping paper and string.

The WordPress account only allows a maximum amount of memory and I keep hitting 100 %, so every so often I delete pictures. If I can I remove the free photos from the free photo library, or blurry, not very good ones from my own pictures. I know it’s not what I want to do, but I can’t afford to take on a bigger package. Anyway that means some posts are now lacking images. But I try to delete as few as I can. X

Full memory again

Posted on January 21, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blog, deleted, files, Media, Memories, Photos, Posts, Time, WordPress5 Comments

My phone is full of photos and my WordPress account is too. I want to add new images but my blog tells me my media file is full. What can I do? I have to delete previous photos from my previous posts.

So if you read one of my blogs and it doesn’t have a photo to illustrate it, that’s the reason why. I could delete the actual blogs but I don’t know how to do it?

My memory (phone)

Posted on September 11, 2024September 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged cleaning phone, clearing up, deletions, file sizes, Life, Media, Memories, Photos, thousands of photos, WordPressLeave a comment

Why does my phone switch itself off when I try and take a photo? I think I might have too many photos in my phone memory and I don’t optimise them enough. When I do try and do that the picture sizes are reduced but the originals stay on the phone. So I have to go through them all to remove duplicates. This also means that all the photos are stacked under one date (today’s), but I have to do it. I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to do it now. It also means that the photo sizes here will be reduced.

My dilemma is that a lot of pictures here are large and they are taking up a lot of space, so I sometimes have to take off photos from my blogs to give me a bit more room to add new pictures here. So if you find a blog of mine here without a picture? Well that’s the outcome of not being able to afford a better package on WordPress. X

Confused

Posted on April 23, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Confusing, Happiness advisor, Life, likes, new system, unread posts, WordPressLeave a comment

Is anyone else having problems working out which posts they have viewed? It used to be that once you had looked at them they would disappear off your list of viewed posts, but now I’ve got a load of posts where people have commented and they keep staying. It’s getting so I can’t tell which I’ve viewed and the page is filling up. If any “happiness advisors” read this please explain what I need to do?

WordPress changes?

Posted on March 31, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apps, Changes, Facebook, Instagram, Life, Thinking, Time, Understanding?, WordPress2 Comments

One day things work in a way I understand, then the next day it’s slightly different. Icons and buttons change. It happens here at WordPress, but I think its worse at places like Facebook. It seems like there are more restrictions, changes to what you can see, and more ads.

For instance Facebook reverts to ‘most relevant’ posts even though you want to see all of them. Then if you press like or live to every comment you can get suspended! It happened to me. My hubby had passed away and many people commented about it and because I wanted to thank everyone I got a warning for spam!

Instagram can be a bit confusing too and X. I know the sites want us to have a better experience but sometimes it would be nice to be told.

Sharing information

Posted on March 17, 2024March 17, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Car, Careful, free image, Information, Library, Life, Sadness, Thinking, Websites, WordPressLeave a comment

Someone spotted the type of car this is. I posted it on my previous post. But it’s not my car.

You can use a free picture library here that will provide you with a free image. I use it when I don’t want to share information that identifies specific details about me. I know that people can do reverse image checks and get your details. I don’t think that’s a good idea. I trust WordPress more than some other sites but even so it’s a risk to share stuff that people could use against you. That’s why I don’t share pet and family names either. I’m not being rude, just careful. X

Blue swirl

Posted on November 2, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumnal, Circular, incollage, Instagram, Leaves, Life, Memories, Photo, Photodirector, Time, WordPressLeave a comment

A photo from 3 years ago morphed a bit more by using incollage and Instagram. I chose the circular template in WordPress to finish it off. It could be a blue glazed ceramic plate. Autumnal in feel but also frosty. I also used the AI style effect in photodirector to get the textured patterning.

Mallaband-Brown

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