We Have had Better Days…

I just can’t help myself.

I tried to improve our website and ended up ruining it.

I recently discovered that the theme we have been using for years does not have an editor or allow much customisation. This means we can’t have a homepage. A page to welcome our visitors and tell them all about us and what we do.

This is where ‘how hard can it be,’ usually announces itself. I didn’t have to wait long and there it was. The challenge was set. All I needed was a new theme.

Sounds easy, doesn’t it?

But this was when confusion walked in and took charge of the situation.

There are hundreds of themes to choose from, and to cut a long, tedious story short, I chose one only to find it was worse than the one we already had.

I chose another, with the same result. We are now on our third theme and I’m not exactly happy with it. When I asked those Happiness Engineers for advice, they did their best.

But we are no nearer to the perfect theme than we were before.

So, apologies all around for the fun and games, but at least we can still post…

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They said it would rain, but there’s no sign yet. The blistering heat continues, and we are sitting around like limp lettuce.

I have never liked the heat, but I seem to be coping better than my sister, who is suffering and looks ill. And bad-tempered, did I mention that?

The heat has also had an odd effect on my patience. Normally never-ending, it has become wafer thin. It must be something about the extent of my current problems, which are running at a higher level than I am used to.

I would love to describe my retirement as ‘easy-going, doing mostly well-loved activities with plenty of me time.’ Who am I kidding?

Unfortunately, I decided to change the theme on our humble website, not knowing just how complicated it would be. I should have known, for technology has never been a friend of mine. For three days, I struggled, bashing my head against the wall of my inadequacy as I tried to understand the mechanics.

The times I almost gave up did little to soothe my raging but ineffective brain.

Apparently, this heat has no effect on stubbornness, so when it all began to make sense, the ever-present hopeless depression lifted, and I could think clearly again.

At one point, I thought my blogging days were over, so I’m glad I managed to figure most of it out. I still have a few things to sort out, but I should mention the help and patience I have had from the Happiness Engineers. They have more than earned that title…

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