bloggy stuff

My blogs have always been Blogger blogs and because their user interface is not the best, I’ve always used Windows Live Writer for creating blog posts.  Unfortunately WLW no longer works with Blogger blogs and there are no plans for updates.  I’d already planned to move my blogs over to WordPress, I’ve purchased the hosting and will be working on it after the new year.  In the mean time I’ve downloaded Open Live Writer, which is wonderful, but there are … Read More

Recently I’ve taken a blogging break but I think I’m ready to keep going now.  I’ve got several posts written but haven’t gotten them published.  It seems that no matter how hard I work on this blog I am always at least a month behind. Creating a blog post means choosing pictures, editing pictures, writing text, and formatting everything.  It’s time-consuming and becomes overwhelming when I feel like I’ll never catch up.  But this is the journal of our trip … Read More

A few weeks ago there was a glitch with the software I use to create blog posts.  They finally fixed it, so I can blog again!  I had some posts from Tasmania waiting to publish so I’ve done that, but I think to have any hope of keeping this blog at all current I’m going to have to skip ahead.  Hopefully I can go back and blog about some of these places later. At the moment we are in New … Read More

So the blog’s been kind of silent.  We came back from Tasmania toward the end of March after five weeks there.  We loved it.  We were exhausted and spent some time resting and recovering.  We went back home for Easter and stayed a couple of weeks.  Since then we’ve travelled into New South Wales.  We spent time in Wagga Wagga and Junee.  Now we are in Canberra and plan to stay a week or two to explore our capital city. … Read More