Everybody come and join us.

[Penners]

Graham

we have some Gunnera

Isn't that a nasty disease, that Grimmers caught from Brunhilde?

 

[caread]

The new format is much better. I no longer have to trawl through what feel like 'insiders' comments and irrelevant birthday messages, 'witty' comments etc. to find the useful information I need.

 

[Toby Newell]

I think the new forum is more intuitive. I will have to learn how to use the URL and img tags. I am sure everyone will come around in the end.

It just goes to show, whatever you say about PP posters no one seems to be using the emoticons thank god.

Toby

 

[Ian Bond]

Except me!

 

[Penners]

Oh stop it!
:lol:

 

[Ian Bond]

OK Penners - I'll reserve them for special occasions only.

Cheers

Ian

 

[Jocelyn]

Did I spot a name beginning with E--------------- hope so.
Jocelyn

 

[Penners]

Jocelyn

Did I spot a name beginning with E

Where? On this forum? I'm afraid that's very unlikely. She has been very adamant.

 

[Moo]

I wonder what she'll be doing with all that time she'll be saving?

Gardening? Restoring ancient cars? Saving a few more buildings?

Is there someone on the forum who can keep us informed?


ps to Penners: Have I just used up my annual allocation of question marks?

 

[Penners]

Seeing as it's you, Moo, I've had a word with the authorities. You can have an unlimited supply.

I reckon Evelyn will fill her time with home-brew!

 

[McDad]

Haven't been for a while and thought I was on wrong web-site at first, but getting used to it and it's actually easier to use.

 

[Penners]

Definitely easier to use, McDad. I found it a bit daunting for the first day or two, but now I reckon it's a great improvement on the old forum.

Stick around!

 

[Moo]

I wanted to add a response to one of Penners' messages (where on earth should the apostrophe go?)
But it's come out here, where it makes no sense at all.
So, Penners, please scroll back to your remark abut Evelyn's home-brew and imagine the following:

It won't be the same, though, will it?

 

[Penners]

In what way, Moo?

 

[Moo]

My word, things are getting complicated.

Does my last message now make sense?

 

[Ian Bond]

Moo, do you mean that when you reply, it always gets added to the end of the list?

This does make it slightly more difficult when you want to respond to a reply half way up, and confused the hell out of me initially. :?

The only way I can see around that, is to quote the relevant text, and address the person concerned, as in:

Moo said

Does my last message now make sense?

Ian :?

 

[Penners]

Moo

Does my last message now make sense?

Don't worry - at my age very little makes sense any more!

However, as Ian says, the one disadvantage of this type of forum is that you can't add a reply directly under someone else's earlier post. So the way to make it all make sense is to quote an appropriate extract from the post that you're replying to.

At the risk of sounding patronising (and apologies if you already know this), here's how you do it. Highlight the section of text that you want to quote, and copy it to your pasteboard (CTRL+C). Start your reply, and when you want to quote the section of text, click the 'Quote' button above the typing box. Then paste your bit of text (CTRL+V), then click the 'Quote' button again. This will now appear in your post as a Quote box like this.

This will now appear in your post as a Quote box like this

If you want to practice it, there's a practice forum that you can muck about on.

I hope that helps - you quickly get used to it.

David

 

[skier-hughes]

David,

An even easier way.

Press the quote button above the post you want to quote from.

This will open up the reply page with the whole of the post you want to quote from.

Delete any pieces of the quote you don't want to use and hey presto, quick quote.

Benefit of this way is that it tells everyone who you are quoting.

Graham

 

[skier-hughes]

At the risk of sounding patronising (and apologies if you already know this), here's how you do it. Highlight the section of text that you want to quote, and copy it to your pasteboard (CTRL+C). Start your reply, and when you want to quote the section of text, click the 'Quote' button above the typing box. Then paste your bit of text (CTRL+V), then click the 'Quote' button again. This will now appear in your post as a Quote box like this.

This will now appear in your post as a Quote box like this

I hope that helps - you quickly get used to it.

David

Like that.

Graham

 

[Ian Bond]

Top tip, thanks for that.