I think the weather has been better this week, at least in parts, I remember putting towels out on the whirly on Tuesday and getting them half dry, apart from that I've forgotten! although I've done some bits of garden clearing so it must have been mostly dry. The garden waste bin is full of Buddleia again and the wheelbarrow the same - waiting for the bin to be emptied on Monday.
We now have 7 new people at the Keep Moving group and most have been for the last 3 weeks, some other regulars returned so we had 16 there this week which is very good news. It's only half an hour working through a sequence of exercises but I'm sure it does us good physically and then socially when we have coffee afterwards. Three of the new folk are people I knew from way, way back, when we lived in the area through the 1980s. They've not moved, while I've been halfway round Suffolk and back.
Middle Grandson had his 5th birthday this week, I went round for Pizza and Cake - his request for tea after school on his birthday - I'm not going on Saturday when he has 4 friends round to play!
Thank you to everyone for comments this week - I'm glad I'm not the only person who doesn't like strong scents, random book gifts and only doing jigsaw puzzles I like the look of. The comments were split on finding the edges already separated of the February jigsaw, some people agreed that it was good to find while others said they would miss searching for them. It wasn't a new puzzle so would have been repackaged like that by the person who did it last. I'm very strongly in the first camp - it was a treat!
Here's how I'm getting on with it..........slowly.
My Bad Blogger post a couple of weeks back wasn't meant to be taken entirely seriously but since then I've been ever so good and have checked the comments spam section everyday (well almost everyday!). Nothing in it most days which is good news, perhaps blogger is behaving itself, although I won't bank on it.
But I'm still puzzling over one comment that was left on the Bad Blogger post
I comment often on your blog and rarely are they posted by you. I have become discouraged. I never know if the were removed for moderation bec you didn't like my [innocuous] comments or if they're lost in spam and you never look there. I found it ironic a week or so ago that you asked people to comment, please....Maybe they like me are lost in Blogger ether.
PS I see above my position is unpopular--to clarify, I don't mind if you don't answer! But if my comments are never posted, I will stop commenting, not just your blog but in general.
I don't have comment moderation switched on and never have (except for the odd day, like after Colin died, or to get addresses for giveaways) so all comments should pop up straight away , so I looked back pre January and can't find any other comments by Lizzy D. I wonder if there is another place comments can go to that none of us know about!
However, there are 66,000+ comments that Have been published - blimey no wonder I've not answered all of them!
Did you look in the spam folder? I just wondered if you know where that is? Maybe her comments are going there.
ReplyDeleteAs I said above I've been very good checking the spam folder everyday
DeleteOh Go On .. You'll have Fun !! Lol ( re: Saturday party ) . I like that jigsaw very much and I totally understand doing one that's to your own taste and same goes for reading books. You have certainly had a huge number of comments from people , Wow !
ReplyDeleteI'll leave birthday parties to Son and DiL!
DeleteThat is odd about Lizzie's comments going missing. I clucked on her link, lovely post by the way on bulbs, and left a comment. I'll see later if mine got through. Maybe there's some blocker setting none of us know about.
ReplyDeleteYes, I read her posts on my sidebar. I couldn't find she had commented on my blog anywhere - maybe I'm the wrong Sue!
DeleteI think I might start a new puzzle next week. Someone gave me one for Christmas but I haven't had a good spot to work on it. Now's the time! (When I lose a piece -- or if it wasn't there in the first place -- I circle the area on the puzzle box picture and write "one piece missing" so I don't go nuts the next time -- or someone won't if it's passed on.)
ReplyDeleteOnce we get to better weather that will be the end of jigsaws until next winter
DeleteI check my spam folder every day, too. I have had an inordinate number of 'erectile dysfunction' comments!
ReplyDeleteThere was a spate of weird comments, but things seem to be better lately
DeleteI'm just a commenter so I have no idea how Blogger works. I've read on other blogs that comments can be lost sometimes. I usually blame myself and assume I forgot to press "Publish"! ;).
ReplyDeleteThere are settings we can put for comments - allow anonymous lets anyone comment and then there is an opportunity to read comments before publishing. I don't put any checks - so in theory anyone can comment and it should pop up straight away. In theory!
DeleteBlogger is fickle - to say the least.
ReplyDeleteHaving followed Her In Him Out for years with no access to comment I suddenly noticed one day that I could!
I also don't have a blog ( yet, but never say never ) so had assumed up until then that that was the reason.
My blog is set so anyone can comment and they should appear straight away - I'm being good about checking for comments mistakenly going into spam
DeleteLOL I will [try to] refrain from commenting, sorry for the upset/ bother.
ReplyDeleteNo upset and no bother at all, please comment and your comment should pop up straight away like everyone else's. If it doesn't it's a strange mystery
DeleteI try to answer all comments, but it is a big job when there are a lot. I like to get them though.
ReplyDeleteWith no comments I'd just be talking to myself - which is something I do too much of anyway!
DeleteI never went back to read the puzzle comments so didn't see the split but would add that I am one who likes to sort my own edge pieces. It familiarises me with the puzzle and is all part of the fun and an important part of he procedure of starting a puzzle. I can get very anal about jigsaw puzzles!
ReplyDeleteWeirdly I find sorting the edges the most annoying part of doing a puzzle.
DeleteYou write daily and reply often. The dialog on your blog is great for everyone. In my opinion, there is no need to complain.
ReplyDeleteYour new puzzle is coming along nicely.
I managed a bit more jigsaw yesterday, I will soon be at the stage when I start to think there Must be pieces missing and hope there isn't
DeleteI recently checked my comment spam folder and found it full with comments from regulars. I don't understand why on one day they get posted and another day they are spam.
ReplyDeleteAs to having a bag of edges pieces count me in as someone who does that for others who follow me doing the puzzle. I just bagged up the edges of a puzzle I only half finished. Decided the lavender flower shades were going to be too much for my brain and gave up on that half of the puzzle. Well, I also need to table space for a Super Bowl party with family.
That jigsaw sounds too annoying to finish. - Hope you have a good Super Bowl Party, it's on too late here for me, although lots of people do stay up to watch.
DeleteI sometimes find comment posts months after my blog post in spam. Like you I check it every day.
ReplyDeleteLove how the new puzzle is coming along.
God bless.
The comment thing never used to happen years ago, it all started when Blogger had a revamp - and is very annoying
DeleteThe puzzle is coming along nicely.
ReplyDeleteI'm puzzled by comments. I have moderation turned on (too many weird ones!) but I notice that several of them pop into the spam folder including my own! Perhaps though, the person thought they posted a comment and navigated away from the page before it posted!
Yes, I often find my own replies in spam, especially if it's just a short reply. It's an odd thing
DeleteI am back on Blogger after a four-year break. It has taken me a bit to get used to it. Maybe they are as clueless at times as me?
ReplyDeleteI think the big blogger revamp was more than 4 years ago so you should be OK. I shall look at your blog now.
DeleteI check Spam every day too and, like you, some comments never appear anywhere. Very odd.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I'm starting to realise that sometimes I make a comment somewhere and I either forget to press 'publish' or don't get it quite on the button and when I move on, my comment just vanishes without any warning that I have 'unsaved' stuff. If Blogger can have that on the actual posts to warn us, surely it can have the same for comments - but it doesn't. xx
I find that some of my comments on Sue Hall's blog: A Smaller and Simpler Life often just disappear when I press 'publish' but re-appear some time later. Very weird....
ReplyDeleteI've just tried to look at Sue's blog a few minutes ago and now it's showing 'by invitation only' or something and won't let me look. Oh dear......
Angie
Yours, Vix's and a few other people's regularly publish and then revert to Spam, they then have to be fished out next time I'm on the computer. There's no rhyme or reason as sometimes they appear just fine and manage to cling on in their rightful place. Blogger is just a law unto itself these days. I privatised the wrong blog briefly, sorry for the hiccup. :-)
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