Baby ducks, so cute

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Beth Spencer

Looked out my window this morning to see a very proud set of duck parents with ten fluffy little duckings in tow.

I hope they make it. Apparently the eels in the creek have a nasty habit of biting the feet off the baby ducks when they go for a swim.

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Can’t embed videos in WordPress? Try this fix. (Annoying problem solved.)

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Beth Spencer

Been googling for a while to try to find out why my videos (eg from youtube, but also from my own media library) weren’t embedding, but were just coming out as boring old links.

And I finally found someone with the answer… on youtube (of course).

Basically there is a little box on the Users tab that you have to uncheck for some reason. Click on Users in the sidepanel of the dashboard, then click on your user profile to edit it, find the checkbox with ‘use the visual rich editor when writing’ (in the current version of wordpress it’s near the top), uncheck that box, then update to save that info, and it will then work. Don’t know why, but hey, it works!

So thought I’d post this here in case it saves someone else hours of misery.

and to celebrate that it works, an old fave: Enjoy!

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Happy Maggies (and sad ol’ Saints)

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Beth Spencer

Poor ol’ Saints fans.. Wasn’t that dismal. So sorry.

But many happy Magpies chorusing tonight. First win for the Pies since 1990. Just spoke with my brother who started following them in 1958 when they won and he was five. He then had to wait till 1990 till they won again (that is a long long time)… and another long wait for third time in his lifetime today.

Up the Maggies! and go the Saints for next time.

And don’t worry (to those who spell footy ‘footie’), this will very likely be the last sporty post for a very long time.

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