100 Word Challenge For Grown Ups Week 13

I missed the deadline for 100WCGU last week - try as I may, I was completely unable to come up with anything! I did marginally better this week, but thought I may as well submit it anyway. It does prove my really rubbish taste in TV. To be fair, I don't indulge in TV very often so I'm not greatly fussy!

5 Things That Made Me Smile This Week

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1. I logged into Facebook the other day to find a friend request from my grandmother. She lives quite a while away (not insanely far but far enough for me as I don't drive) and we don't speak much, so I was glad to see her on there - if a little shocked because she's not great with computers!

Blogger Comment Problems... AGAIN!

Known Issues for Blogger: We're investigating reports of users not being abl...

We're investigating reports of users not being able to comment on IE8/9 from the embedded form. We hope to have a fix out shortly, but in the meantime we encourage admins to switch to either the full-page or pop-up forms which should be working without issue.


Thanks for your patience, and we'll make sure to update this post as soon as we have more info.

latest update on Thursday, October 06, 2011

I'm also having this problem with Google Chrome, is this the same for everyone?


Not only that, but I seem to be unable to find a way to switch the comments to a pop-up box.


AND the text from this post was creeping into the right sidebar. Hoping that's fixed now...


AND the layout of the post keeps appearing in some weird, broken sort of way.

Seriously starting to consider a switch to Wordpress, any thoughts (you're probably better off tweeting, @GoldAndThree)?

What REALLY Grips My ****

*Inspired by Britmums Blog Prompt, my biggest pet peeve is_______ :)*

It's something that has come up quite regularly over the past few weeks and to be honest, I've been dying for an excuse to rant over it!

5 Things That Made Me Smile This Week

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1. Awards. Goldilocks was very pleased to come home with a Merit Award on Monday, given to her for "fantastic participation in Welsh activities".  I have blogged before about how much she loves to speak Welsh and I'm hopeful that her enthusiasm may help her focus in the classroom.