What a beauty Bramble is.  I had better not show hubby these pictures.  He so wants another dog (we lost our Holly many years ago) but I've told him he will have to wait until he retires, then he can have a dog which he can look after and call his own.

Forgot to say, getting into the thread and posting seems okay for me today. 

It does seem better today.

Yogi that's great! I bet you're very excited well, apart from the nest building antics cheeky birds! El, there's not an "attach" option for the iPhone app, I copied a [IMG] code from photo bucket and then pasted it into the comment box, to get the pics to show. Do you think the HTML code would work for videos..?

Hi joyron

<a href="http://s1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff515/SweetSummer2/?action=view&current=637df1e2.mp4" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff515/SweetSummer2/637df1e2.mp4" border="0" alt="Photobucket Pictures, Images and Photos" /></a>

I was Summer. I hope they come back again.

http://i1239.photobucket.com/a...Summer2/637df1e2.mp4

They probably will yogi if they liked what's on the menu, I'm sure they will be!

I'm just testing things there, ignore those links if they don't work

It worked Summer, I could watch the video.

Bramble is such a sweetheart and she has lovely markings. I love the little white tuft on her front.

Ooh- which link yogi..? First or second? I love the white tufty bit too

This one worked, Summer.

Saw the 2nd link Summer, but it stalled, its me tho,so much for BT Infinity its slower for me than Sky was  Lovely tho x

Away to meet son,s friend,s mum, who is dealing with the boys going off to Bulgaria. If i dont get back on, have a lovely evening all xx

Bye for now, Skylark.

I'm seeing if I can upload Summer's video here.

 

And success

I have returned from that new client and should be able to sort things out for him. When he spoke to me last week he had said he had been sent a tax return for self employment and he had never been self employed. He had been sent a self assessment tax return and had got confused between self employment and self assessment.

Ah, that makes more sense. Glad you were able to sort things out for him, El.

 

YAY to you for sorting out the video of Bramble.

That sounds like the 2nd link works then, thank you I've got more where that came from lol El, thank you for changing the video for me I'm glad you cleared things up for the client And hope he'll recommend you to other people

I am glad you were able to sort out your client, it just goes to show that what seems crystal clear to someone used to these forms can be really baffling to those who are not.  That video embedded well well done

Skylark I hope you have a lovely evening

http://i1239.photobucket.com/a...Summer2/ae676291.mp4

Seriously Summer, I am really impressed. She is one clever puppy.

Here you are Summer

 

 

I'm uploading your videos on to here, Summer, as my version of Windows Media Player doesn't recognise MP4 ones. Yogi obviously does have software which will play them, but I don't.

 

I wonder what I've got?

Whatever you've got I've got it too I just checked and my Media Player plays MP4

We could start a club. We could let El be an honorary member.

Hi back again! 
Well thats the holiday in Bulgaria sorted, bit expensive and a worry, but thats life!

I can see Summer,s vids no problem ,,whats MP4??
My son just explained  

Son just said, watch out Summer, he is going to steal Bramble  

Welcome to my world.

 

Glad they've got the holiday sorted.

On the news today, they've been talking about the Cutty Sark being ship-shape again. Pictures here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17818532

 

One or two of you might remember a post I made about the Cutty Sark a couple of years ago, but this story is worth repeating. And it's completely true.

 

When my maternal grandfather was 15 he left home and ran away to sea. This would have been about 1913. He went in a tea clipper and sailed around the world in it for a period of time. I cannot be certain but there is every possibility that it was the Cutty Sark. The Cutty Sark was used as a tea clipper from 1870 to 1922 when it was bought from the owners and became a training ship. It was the last tea clipper to be in active service. For a time the Cutty Sark had been renamed the Ferreira. By 1913 it was carrying various cargoes as tea was being transported by then by other means. It traded between Portugal, Rio, New Orleans and Britain. In May 1916 it was dismasted off the shore of the Cape of Good Hope. Because of WW1 being ongoing it took some 18 months before it coule be re-rigged so my grandfather must have gone back home in 1916 at the latest.

 

My grandfather did make a model of a tea clipper, presumably based on the one he sailed in, and had it in a bottle. I remember seeing it as a child when I went to visit my grandparents.

 

Not his (I don't know what happened to his) but a similar one:

 

I think of all the anecedotes of my family I've posted here, this is my own favourite.

What a fabulous piece of family history, El.

I love that pic of the restored Cutty Sark, it's a beautiful ship.

Oh, and when I was small, I could never figure out how they got the ships into the bottles.

My version of Windows Media Player is 11 which is the most recent available for Windows XP. More recent versions of Windows would have Player 12 which is presumably why some of you can play Summer's videos without needing them to be uploaded.

Did you do what i did, just looked very intelligent and said thanks, but no further forward ?

Very interesting El, my daughter on her 8th birthday was in a shop and picked out a ship in a bottle, she found it fascinating how it got in there. Still have it x

Maybe.

I don't know what I've got - and I don't even know where to start looking, to find out.

I know I have Windows Vista ('cos' it says so, on the laptop), if that means anything to anyone.

I think i am slumming it with windows xp . I do wish i was computer literate, i am trying tho......very, as some would say 

Come sit with me in the Dunces' Corner.