This is Beryl's 'ice-plant' I think they are called. If not, perhaps one of our horticultural correspondents could intercede. Her's is more extensive than ours and also further on. Beryl rang last night and while not needing anything urgent she is having trouble with her legs. She sounded very low so I promised to go up for coffee. I did and she was so pleased to see me; I felt really guilty about not paying her more attention - she understood that it just hasn't been possible - but now I'm a lot better. Incidentally, a lady doctor from the surgery rang at 7.30pm yesterday evening to say that my morning's blood-sample had finally turned up at Queen's not The City Hospital. The INR level had gone up to 5.4 and she changed my warfarin dosage again! and booked me in for another test on Monday morning. Ho hum!Re my italics. Jill commented "What is wrong with italics?" A fair point but if the whole thing is in italics, how do you 'italicise' something you want to draw attention to, like a foreign phrase, or a quote?
Anyway if the advice works,which I have received from 'Metaphysical' and 'Freeg131' on WebUser Forums, the problem should be solved from hereon. Out of interest, I went back to some older Blogs before I started interfering with my source-code and they were not italicised. Apparently, by accident I had shortened the embed tag to em.
According to Blogger if I wanted to rectify those days which were affected I would have to republish my entire Blog, I think. But it warns one that it can be a lengthy business. So I'll prolly leave them as they are. Having had quite enough of hospitals I don't want to take up Bungus's comment that I could go in for an 'italicectomy'.
Ha Ha! He He!!..................................
You won't need an 'italicectomy', it's all back to normal now. The whole page is unitalic (is that a word?) now.
ReplyDeleteMadeline.
Not what I think of as an ice-plant which, to me, is a decorative, low-growing plant with edible fleshy leaves; sort of succulent like. But I could very easily be wrong.
ReplyDeleteWould ‘bloody hell’ describe your current phase?
Without, I hope, being terribly pedantic, I have to agree with RadioG about the italics. Pretty though they may be, regarding them as another typeface could possibly lead to all sorts of emphasis problems – bold and underline do not always do the same job. But I quite happy to accept ‘unitalic’ into the lexicon..
Being, as yet, a nonblogger, but a sort of hoorary blogger-bogger, would my method work to rectify past blogs? Viz: ‘copy’ or ‘cut’ any passage in your blog that you wish to alter; and ‘paste’ it into a Word document. Make alterations required (eg, unitalic it). Then ‘copy’ / ‘cut’ it again and 'paste' it back into the blog.
Ha Ha! He He!!..
Only about 112 days to Ho-ho-ho.....................
Refereeing (should be referring) to previous comment on filling in forms: At the first office in which I worked as an artickled (I like that'k') pupil, the 2IC was a surveyor named Sam Walker who, when completing LA application forms, would ony answer 'yes' or 'no'
Eg'
'Colour of bricks?' 'No'
'Method of rainwater disposal?'... 'Yes'
He once came into the Drawing Office and demanded:
'Have you got that plan?'
'Which plan is that, Mr Walker?'
'Which plan? There's only one bloody plan.'
My verification word to post this comment is 'mhadas'. Almost a colloquialism.