I'm trying something new today, I'm composing this blog entry entirely on my phone. I would appreciate it if you could let me know what it looks like, font, font size, images etc and if it is better/worse/no difference to previous entries.
It's been nearly a week now since my last entry and the Walk 100 Miles For Parkinson's challenge is nearly over. So far, with all the kind and generous support of so many people, I have raised a wonderful total of over £820.00 exl. Gift Aid. I am deeply humbled and immensely grateful to everyone.
But I have one last favour to ask of you. Please will you share my QR code with your friends and family in case they would like to donate and give me that one last shove in the hopes that I can achieve my target of £850, or maybe even break through the £1000 barrier.
MY OFFICIAL FUNDRAISING QR CODE
You can forward it by email or scan it as is normally done.
Well this blog composing on my phone is absolutely exhausting me. Still, onwards and upwards.
I don't think I have to tell you how unbearably hot it was this week. One of the big problems with Parkinson's is that many of us lose our ability to moderate our body temperature. I don't have to tell you how very dangerous this is. I suffered badly to the point that I came very close to pressing my emergency button in the middle of Sunday/Monday morning. It was only the thought of lying on a gurney in a hospital corridor for hours and hours that stopped me! Thank God it has cooled down now! Consequently, in the interests of staying safe and out of hospital, I made the executive decision to refrain from walking anywhere other than around my house and garden.
I have made an infusion of the unripened seeds of Sweet Cicely in honey. It will steep for several weeks before I strain it for use.
I have not had my lawn mowed in nearly a year so it has been quite the job but I had help. Consequently I have a lot of lovely native wildflowers all over my garden, or Wildflower Lawn as I have named it. Here are a few things that will be good for wildlife though the coming year, as well as some things providing me with food for free!
Well I am really struggling with this now as it has switched to nighttime mode and I can hardly see the screen! I can see some photos may be sideways but I will have to look at them tomorrow as I must get some rest.
Until next time 🩵🌷🩵
Hi Deborah, the font and layout for your post look fine on my phone.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your perseverance! It has been a real inspiration to follow you on your venture into the Great Outdoors, or so it might have been seemed after months and months of trial and tribulation. I hope you get to your new revised target.
Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you. Three photos showing up sideways on my phone but I need to look at the laptop too.
DeleteMaybe I shouldn't have kept revising my target? I moved the goal posts every time I reached it.
I find my phone way to small and clunky for blogging. I think it is also too basic anyway. xx
ReplyDeleteI think my phone has proven to be a lot more capable of much more than I really need it to!
DeleteWell done on the huge challenge nearly finished.
ReplyDeleteWill the Mullein get eaten to bits by caterpillars?
Have you had another part of your herbal medicine course yet?
So many questions!
and the post looks the same as your usual so that's good.
Thank you.
DeleteThe Mullein Moth caterpillar will absolutely decimate the plant. Anything Verbascum is fodder.
Still working on May, but June's coursework is released on the first.
The post looks good Debbie apart from some of the photos at the end which I think you realised. Well done on nearly finishing the challenge and raising so much money for a good cause. Your garden is looking lovely. It is still hot here although not as bad as it has been thank goodness.
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DeleteThank you, yes, I don't know what is going on there, the photos are the right way up everywhere except here! And there's no way to turn them around.
Cooling down rapidly now!
Hats off to phone composition. I don't think I could manage that keyboard. A text or email reply drives me batty! It looks fine, although if I'm remembering right, usually your photos are centered instead of flush left. And cheers to your nice looking garden too!
ReplyDeleteThank you, oddly, the keyboard is easier to use with one finger than touch typing on the regular keyboard. I am getting used to that, it's the lack of facilities available to blogger that's annoying.
DeleteIt looks great to me! It can be tricky to write and post photos using only your phone. Sometimes it's easier on the 'big internet' instead.
ReplyDeleteAnd well done on your fundraising! A huge achievement. Xx
Thank you so much. The final few yards have been saved for today!
DeleteIt all looks fine and congratulations on the fund raising
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteWell done on using your phone to publish this post ... as you are already aware, apart from the bottom three photographs being sideways it's 100%.
ReplyDeleteWell done on your fund raising.
I wish you a good weekend ahead and thank goodness it is cooler now.
All the best Jan
Thank you Jan. I've had to do trial and error over the photos in my next "edition" I think, I hope, I have them all the right way up!
DeleteVery grateful for the cooler days, but the rain is hampering my oil making now!