As you can see I've had the decorators in. I've been experimenting with various options on Blogger's templates tab. I fear I may need some help. Do Trinny and Susannah do blogs?
I just don't have a thing to wear.
I needed to change the template to one with a wide banner heading, as the Tech Guru is going to do something clever with it one of these days. Of course now he's got a blog of his own, my needs have to come second while he addresses his public. I really don't think he needs to wear a toga to do it, but whatever. I feel a bit like James Mason to his Judy Garland. In more ways than one. Anyway, the old template didn't cut the mustard.Mustard. Hmm.
However, the new wallpaper is perhaps a bit garish. Even for Christmas. I'm trying to find a combination that reflects the true me. Something that conveys my innate good taste, my essential finesse and understatement while at the same time hinting at my Celtic passion, and my tropical sense of rhythm. Not to mention my appreciation for the very occasional chocolate.
Chocolate, mmm.
I have also added a few toys, whilst reducing my output. I'm afraid pressures of rehearsals with the KNOB.*, mah-jong parties with the Woluwe branch of the W.I. and writing restaurant reviews for UpYours** (see new link in sidebar for online versions) not to mention having to keep up with East Enders, Heroes and Jonathan Ross, and get my full beauty sleep, mean that I really can't manage more than one post a week. Yes, I hear your roar of protest, but you'll have to settle for less quantity and more quality.
I've added a musical widget which requires a not inconsiderable investment of time, to keep you amused while you're waiting for my next pearls of wisdom. I've also updated the blogroll and added some interesting new links, such as Tom Joad, whose pieces on language and wordplay are most edifying, and I Love Belgians, a touching visual demonstration by our Flemish and Walloon friends that this country is not on the verge of a civil war, although it has now been a whopping 170 days without a federal government, about to overtake the all-time Belgian record of six months with no captain at the helm. As a way of getting Belgium into the Guinness Book of Records, there must be easier ways, like eating the most chips in under 10 minutes or something.
I was at a loss to find a colour scheme or a template that brings to mind a tea room in Cheam or a chintz chaise-longue, rather than the present ensemble which reminds me of the Ubongoland market lady who sold me the elephant's foot umbrella holder - carved from wood, not from a real elephant, of course - wherein sits my favourite gay umbrella, subject of my most popular post to date.
But of course! (Slaps forehead in realization of the obvious). By George I think I've got it. Take it away, Toto.
* Kurt Nachtnebel Oompah Band
28 comments:
What a voice that maiden had! No wonder the gays are so fond of her. I think she was the first actress to co-star with a gay lion.
Pour le gouvernement j'ai une solution !
nous en avons un qui ne sert pas à grand chose prenez le !!!
Pour la couleur cette fois-ci je...enfin bouche cousue !
Et enfin , Modifier ton modèle dont le choix était mon premier n'est pas le plus simple ,il faut " Modifier le code HTML "
Je crois que je vais recommencer avec le même modèle pour ajouter un nouveau tème ...et si ma mémoire est bonne avec "Script_Edit" c'est un jeux d'enfant !!
"Wayne - Bough" DOH!! I just got it. I thought I was a punmeister - you ARE the queen.
I Like the new format too.
I like the new design.
You'll have to beg Che to draq a nice Rain Bough to go with the title...
Enjoyed the new Daphne's Dinners.
GB, weren't the tin man and the scarecrow also friends of Dorothy?
Crabtree, nous les femmes on est connues pour changer d'avis sans cesse. Merci pour les conseils. Tu verras d'autres changements avant que je me decide.
Brom, actually Bough rhymes with Muff. Wine buff, geddit? But this post was for those who think that my name rhymes with rainbow. It most certainly does not rhyme with vain cow.
Love the interactive novel!
Cream, I never beg. I will withhold Che's daily crust of stale bread until he personalizes my blog like he's done with his own. I might do a review of Krimo's for UpYours one of these days!
is that background colour supposed to be Sprout?
Ooh, a free plug for t'book! Fanx pal!
Mustard is soooo not your colour, though. Meh, it's only wallpaper, it's the content that counts. As you say, quality over quantity. I must try that someday.
Nanas, she was certainly the finest actress to co-star with a gay lion. But I'd always thought the tin-man was the friend-of-Dorothyiest friend-of-Dorothy.
I dunno, Daphs, I'm not loving the mustard. It's the same colour as the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry seats upon which I vomited fequently as a child. Pale green is very relaxing they say - a nice celery maybe with hints of aubergine or scarlet.
I guess it's hard to have just a hint of scarlet though. Maybe a slash of scarlet. To show your fruity side.
Daphne ,l'en-tête est cool !
Dans " Modèle " - " Modifier le code HTML "
Sous [ /* Use this with templates/template-twocol.html */ ]
Tu as [ body {
background:#dddd99;
margin:0;
color:#333333; ]...
En changeant " background:#dddd99; " Par -> background: url(" -url de la texture de ton choix- ")repeat;
Tu auras un choix infini de textures sur http://www.texturesweb.com/
Tu pourras même changer selon ta tenue , ton humeur du moment en temps réel ,enfin pour ne ressembler à personne !!
Pour en faire baver de jalousie les copines !!
J'oubliais , dans texturesweb un clic gauche sur le petit carré de ton choix ,tu as de nouveau tout un choix ,clic droit pour l'afficher "propriété" emplacement url copier-coller ...
C'est l'un des sites où les textures sont les plus belles !
Jake-Farty-Sam: I'm still playing around with it, hang fire, something wonderful will emerge. I did the banner heading myself as the tech guru is too effing slow. I know it's not perfect and there are probably miles easier ways to do one (Crabtree has just given me a dead useful link) but I'm learning as I go along.
Oooooh Crabtree, quel cadeau de noel anticipe tu m'as donne la! Toutes sortes de belles robes a me mettre - je vais faire un defile de mode sur les semaines a venir, tu vas voir. L'entete actuelle est ma propre creation. J'impose les resultats de mon autodidaction sur mes lecteurs, avec mes excuses, mais if not you, alors qui?
I think I missed the "mustard period" but I like the new look - very soothing. I recently changed mine and now I'm not sure if it looks a bit pretentious. On verras.
As I have mentioned to anyone who will listen, I believe the Belgian non-government is a social experiment. Let's face it - 170 days and counting and nothing bad has happened. Things still work. There will be some kind of problem with the budget but, meh...
Thank you for the plug/link - it's the first time anything I've done has been called edifying - I had to look it up ;-)
You are fearless - fiddling with your templates. Don't worry about one post a week. I always miss something and return for more. Odd you should mention Trinny. Dandelion nipped out to the gas station in her jim-jams and saw an immaculate Trinny. A lesson for us all.
Mustard no more! Je l'adore!
I love the header. The grey's nice and soothing and it makes the pictures really pop out with colour.
Tom, your site is very businesslike and serious. Not at all pretentious. Quite copacetic, in fact. (Expand your vocabulary with Word du Jour!)
Pat, who dares wins and all that (what did happen to those empty paras?). It's a bit like trying on clothes in a store without using the changing rooms. Which French ladies used to do when M&S first opened in Paris, not being used to the concept of return and exchange. Are they ever going to open up on the continent again? They are much missed.
Sam, thanks, and sorry for making you feel bilious before. It was the African side of me coming out. Everything is back to understated tastefulness now.
I was initially worried that you'd gone a bit ladette, until I realised it was Tranny and Suzannah rampaging down the road in their braziers.
I have no idea what your current template colours are, but they look fine to me. I can identify primary colours, but after that I get rather confused. I'm sure the cowardly lion could do better, I believe they're very good at that sort of thing.
C'est excellent !!Le bandeau titre me plait énormément ,tu maîtrise de mieux en mieux !si quelque chose te tracasse je suis ton serviteur ...
Lynx, are you Daltonian then? Yes it's true the gaylords are very good with interiors. Just not women's ones.
Crabtree, je dois avouer, le tout dernier bandeau ce n'etait pas moi, c'etait le gurutechno. J'ai voulu personnaliser le blog un peu plus. Tu as l'air de t'y connaitre avec ce machin-la, et tu es tres patient avec un p'tit bout de bonne femme qui ne connait pas son html de son ndlr.
Et puis soit dit en passant : merci pour le lien texturesweb Crabtree - c'est exactement ce que je cherchais.
Ché
Oui Daphne, triturer, tripatouiller le HTML, j’adore et la patience est ma compagne, et avant qu'un p'tit bout de femme me demande je suis là, on peut appeler cela de la serviabilité pour moi c'est naturel -
Et si, je peux être utile Ché cela me fait plaisir, comme on dit j'ai plus d'un tour dans mon sac !
Je vais pas tripatouiller dans tes sacs, Crabtree, pour savoir ce qu'il y a dedans !
Non, mais...
Ha ha - desolé.
Le dernier commentaire vient de moi, et non pas de Daphne...
( j'ai acces a son compte pour finasser le graphisme de son blog )
Je suis désolé pour la "fuck-up".
(traduction fr. -> l'erreur)
Je ne tripatouille que dans le mien Daphne !!
Même si je suis capable d'éplucher les blogs que je consulte je ne me permet pas l'intrusion !!
Je peux pour aider consulter avec l'accord préalable , pour indiquer la bonne manipulation du scipt ...
Allez pour le plaisir un p'tit site :
http://www.grsites.com/textures/
et un autre: http://www.compteur.cc/
Avec tout mon respect Daphne
Do you have fights over the keyboard? Earl Greys at Dawn and all that?
I like the grafitti motif but the background is way too Bruxelles
Goth, I'm more of a Tetleys girl myself. And the only time we're likely to meet at dawn is as I'm getting up and he's going to bed. Like ships that meet in the night. Toot toot. The grey reflects the colour of the Brussels sky, well spotted.
Some little oik came and spray-painted my garden wall, can you believe? I'll tan his hide if I ever catch him.
Crabtree, crois-tu que fait un gros erreur en donnant la clef de mon blog au Che? J'espere qu'il ne me jouera pas des tours. Il va certainement trouver le p'tit malfrat qui a tagge mon mur. (Pardon, pas d'accents avec ce clavier).
Une erreur ! Non, il faut laisser la jeunesse s’exprimer, hé ! Hé !
Peut-être même connait-il le taggueur ??
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