Slow loading time resolved! and a Finish!

Since I returned to this little space of mine back in May, I have been aware that my blog has been very slow to load, not a good thing when people pop in to visit.  No one has the time to wait around for pages to load and it's even worse if you are wanting to leave a comment, we all love to hear from our blogging friends but the comment section was taking an age to load too. 

So I have spent weeks literally trying to find out why, I'm not that good at technology that's why it's taken me so long, I have googled  and visited help rooms followed all suggestions and none of them worked.

It has been a case of trial and error, I have removed elements from my blog page I have reduced the size of my photos, I have removed widgets one by one with no effect until the penny dropped! I am a little slow and it has to be said my thought processes are getting slower as the the years progress.😕

Can you remember that little widget that you could place at the foot of your post saying "you may also like " and it left pictures of previous posts so you could click on them and go to a post that interests you.  I had quite forgotten all about it until it struck me the other day...I wonder what happened to those pictures because they don't appear anymore.  So I went into the layout of my blog and there it was at the foot of my post, as it wasn't working I deleted it and yay! the problem was seemingly resolved with the click of that delete tab. 

 Now for those of you who knew that already this is of course no big deal but for me and maybe others who could be struggling with slower than usual loading times this could help.  Apparently blogger doesn't support many of the widgets it once did so if you have any that aren't working anymore delete them.  

Now all I have to do is restore all the other stuff I deleted.

Another ta-dah moment ...

Finished at last! I started this for my daughters birthday a couple of years ago but I never had the time to actually sit down and get it done so being in lock-down does give you some positives.           

I really  enjoyed making this, it was a kit bought from a TV craft program although I substituted the embroidery silks for my own as the colours and the quality of threads they sent were awful. The picture is a little dark but the colours are brighter in real life I hope she will like it. I'm now about to start something different but want to finish my Indiana crochet blanket first and it's almost there! so there will be another ta-dah moment next week too.

Aren't these lilies beautiful bright and vibrant they shine out from the shaded area on the decking at the foot of my garden they clash with the bright pink of the hydrangea in a neighbouring pot but somehow that doesn't bother me at all. 

and I'm leaving you with these do have one!  they do taste quite nice even though I say it myself, made for a little family gathering last week just two bites and they are gone so hardly any calories at all.😇

Have a great weekend.😘😘



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