Thoughts on Tuesday….

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Dear Email Subscriber,
Do you really want this tosh from Ms Scarlet Blue landing in your inbox once a month? You are probably interested in calligraphy and are very disappointed when your monthly email arrives and it contains nothing but photos of Devon countryside, peculiar collages, and random words. I apologise.

I do indeed apologise. I have just this moment stumbled across my ‘Email stats’ – I didn’t know such stats existed. Apparently every time I publish a post it is immediately emailed to 101 recipients. 99% of the recipients open the email, but only 3% click through to this blog. My maths is appalling, but this might mean that 96% really aren’t very interested in my witterings. I am disturbing approximately 97 people unnecessarily!! If you are one of the 97 people then please unsubscribe! You know you want to and I will not be hurt by this seemingly callous action!

I am a little bit worried about the 3 people who don’t open the email at all. It is possible that they delete the email immediately, or they might be dead – it happens to us all, and I doubt we get to sort out our blog subscriptions before it does happen. All the junk we leave behind – real and virtual – it all needs sorting. The servers that hold the virtual junk use a lot of energy – I am just saying.

At this juncture I feel like I should add some calligraphy porn for those who subscribe to see some fancy writing. I have this, it is made from scraps of calligraphy, and I didn’t give much thought to the words I included. I made it back in May and haven’t looked at it since until today – and now it appears to have a theme! Weird.

Collage-of-calligraphy-scraps

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To summarise: Please unsubscribe to stop receiving this tosh!!! Don’t unsubscribe if you like receiving this tosh!!! End of Broadcast.

74 thoughts on “Thoughts on Tuesday….”

  1. dinahmow

    Oh! I look forward to the tosh! Sometimes it’s even quate posh.
    And I wasn’t aware that I am an email subscriber! I thought you reached my laptop via a reader. (Oh dear, that’s going to get some of the wags making cheeky comments…perhaps I’d better stop before I make things worse. Oh, gosh!)

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    1. Scarlet Post author

      Thank you, Dinah! I’d like to say that there’s plenty more where this came from…BUT….it’s hard to dream up tosh these days because reality is far more toshy than anything I can make up!! I have been out-toshed by real life.
      Sx

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    1. Scarlet Post author

      Thank you, Jon!! Where would we be without some harmless tosh?!!
      Blog stats always make me frown and wonder! They tell me so little.
      Sx

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  3. dinahmow

    Jon, whenever you see differing sets of numbers…it’s usually indicative of some sort of jiggery-poky. Or malarkey. Or political faffing. Have another G n T, darling and carry on earning…

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    1. Scarlet Post author

      Dinah and Jon – I’ve delved deeper into these WordPress statistics and I can’t make head nor tail of them. I think I will ignore them in future, they are not adding anything to my life!
      Sx

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  4. batarde

    Statistically speaking, I think that your tosh is better than 97.8% of other people’s tosh, which often amounts to nothing more than common or garden piffle. Just the thing to distract one from the absolute state of one’s moat. Splendid work, Scarlet: keep it up.

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    1. Scarlet Post author

      Mr Batarde – You are very kind indeed! And I should really make a bit more of an effort to post more often.
      I’m sure I have more tosh to give!
      Sx

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  7. The Mistress

    I always open your email. However, I don’t visit your blog directly from the email. I visit your blog through Mr. DeVice’s sideboard. In fact, I use Mr. DeVice’s sideboard as my diving-in point for other blogs, too, because he has everyones’ blog links neatly lined up on his sideboard, and sometimes those links even include thumbnail photos.

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    1. Scarlet Post author

      Ms Mistress – Mr Devine’s sideboard is a thing of beauty!! And now you mention it, neither Dinah, Mels, nor I have instigated a sideboard invasion for a while – which is such fun to do from a WordPress blog. I will have to look through my photo library, and knitting patterns, to rectify that.
      Thank you for reading my emails!
      Sx

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    2. Inexplicable Device

      Why, thank you Very Mistress and Ms Scarlet!

      P.S. Ideally, nearly all blog links on my Sideboard should have a thumbnail photo, but Blogger seems to be very picky nowadays about who it will allow a photo from. My Sideboard used to be repleat with thumbnail photos, but those days are long gone, sadly.

      P.P.S. Ms Scarlet, I would be amenable to another actor/comedian looky-likey in a knitted garment of some sort – like that Hugh Laurie-a-like you plonked on my Sideboard a little while back. But not Ricky Gervais or Michale McIntyre, please.

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    1. Scarlet Post author

      Ms Nations – Oh no!! What happened there then? Stupid WordPress. I will send you a personal notification of my current tosh next time I post. Nothing worse than being toshless.
      Sx

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  11. Nick Rogers

    I don’t get your posts through emails, I just check in on a random basis, which is why I’m often a few days late in reading them (hangs head in shame). A juicy bit of tosh always sets me up for the day, so keep toshing away when the mood takes you. Oh and thanks for the useful advice on where to place my postage stamps. Misplacing them would be too humiliating.

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    1. Scarlet Post author

      Nick – I don’t know how you manage without a feed reader – it does make life easier – or you could get a rolling sideboard like Mr Devine’s?
      Anyhow, thank you for your consistent interest in tosh! And stamps.
      Sx

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  12. Eryl Gasper-Dick

    It’s possible I’m one of the 3% who never opens your emails, I have so many emails I tend to ignore them all! So I usually find you in my Reader, when I remember to look. Whichever way it arrives, your tosh is the best there is! X

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    1. 63mago

      I am becoming more and more unsatisfied with wordpress, because they make things worse, more complicated. For example, to link a link and make it open in a new tap, now requiers three or four clicks, not one, as it used to be. Other things get complicated too.
      They want to sell stuff. I do not want to be sold stuff. Maybe blogger finally IS an alternative. Comes with the benefit that I could easily reach other blogger blogs that are unreachable now (The Mistress, FN, and others).
      Maybe next weekend. If I do not have other things to do …

      BTW the first comment, I think it started as a joke around “here sits the dog’s hair”. I mean, it’s all about Sid anyway, isn’t it ?!

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      1. Scarlet Post author

        Mr Mags – Will you import your WordPress blog? It feels daunting, but I think it’ll be for the best. WordPress is always pushing products on me that I don’t want. I’m not sure how photos will look on Blogger… hmm…and Dinah? I will feel bad about leaving Dinah. Hmm, I probably will jump ship as I am fed up with the cost of it all here. I pay and I still have to use emergency codes to break into my own blog. Nightmare. I’ll have a closer look tomorrow.
        And yes, I think Sid would be happier on Blogger, too!
        Sx
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      2. 63mago

        I think I will take the whole blog with me – if I change back to blogger. And I will then use their browser too, it will be total google totalism !

        See the link to the online converter, please.

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      3. Scarlet Post author

        The converter didn’t work for me, Mr Mags, I just got an error message. The one I found didn’t work either. This has led to some ponderment. I may just start afresh at Blogger and link back to this old battleship. I shall leave the baggage behind me. I might keep the domain though.
        Sx

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  15. mrpeenee

    I only recently discovered my posts also generate email. And now WordPress has suspended (deleted is more the word) my blog on account of naked men. Pissy bitches.

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    1. Scarlet Post author

      Mr Peenee – I read about the suspension on Ms Nations blog, what are you going to do? WordPress is being peculiar lately, and it’s not like it used to be. I’ve got half a mind to return to Blogger because WP is getting more and more complicated.
      I had an email sent from this site to my Gmail account and Google told me not to open the link to this Blog because Wonky-Words might be conducting suspicious activity, or some such. I guess everyone getting an email from here also gets the same warning!
      I hope WP gives you your blog back, and restores it to its former glory, otherwise I hope to see you on Blogger.
      Sx

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      1. mrpeenee

        WordPress made it very clear there is no coming back there and to not let the door hit me on the way out. I tried just exporting it back to my original publisher, Blogger, but when I exported the blog from WordPress, it downloaded as some weird file format that does not work on any other platform. I am working on it, but becoming increasingly concerned.

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    2. Scarlet Post author

      Mr Peenee – I’m going to have another look at the import/export situation today. I had a Google last night – and there were instructions about it – they were as clear as mud, but I will poke around in it some more.
      There also seems to be apps that can help you move you across – but I looked at them through a cynic’s eyes!
      Sx

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    3. Scarlet Post author

      Mr Peenee – I have found THIS. I probably can’t try it until later today, or tomorrow, but it might be useful to you. It’s about converting those incompatible file codes.
      Sx

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      4. mrpeenee

        Scarlett, thank you so so much, I’ve been looking for days for a converter with no luck and you come up with one immediately. I think this shows you are in league with the devil, but I don’t care. Thank you again.

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      1. Scarlet Post author

        Nick – I think you might be using a vintage blog theme hence the URL issues on the Blogrol – though I could very well be wrong about this!
        Blogger and WordPress can be very temperamental – I’ve had my own peculiar issues this week.
        Sx

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      1. Jon

        You need to add the “s” to the “http” for Blogger to make it work. Everything there has so be a secure site (that’s what the “s” in the URL means, btw). I had problems getting to Mistress MJ’s a while back and just changed the bookmark in my blog links widget. Jx

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  19. Mitzi

    There is a Youtube video called How to Put a Stamp on an Envelope, it has been viewed 57k times! It’s true. When you put a stamp on an envelope, at the top right hand corner, do you use a ruler like Mrs Bucket does in the opening credits of Keeping Up Appearances?

    A new post from Scarlet, tosh or otherwise is always welcome in the Flange household, in fact, I’ve been known to make a cup of tea to mark the occasion.

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    1. Scarlet Post author

      Mitzi – I must look up that YouTube! I need some helpful hints as I’ve been mildly chastised for wonky placement of stamps in the past. A ruler! I could have done with one of those when I made the collage – it’s even more wonky in real life, and the strips really needed to be straight.
      Thank you, Mitzi – looks like my tosh will be moving back to Blogger!
      Sx

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  20. Inexplicable Device

    I must admit to getting a little bit excited when I notice an email telling me there is tosh to view from you! And, I must also admit that I am one of those who doesn’t open your blog from the email – instead, I visit via my Sideboard (but I do so almost immediately after viewing the email – which may be a couple of days or so old as I don’t check my emails every day…).

    P.S. One can make out the word ‘tosh’ using letters from the narrow brown strip under “Let the direction be written”. Bravo!

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    1. Scarlet Post author

      Ha! Well spotted Mr Devine!! Do you think the collage looks a little religious? Maybe it means that tosh should be my priority in life?!
      I’m very pleased that my tosh still tickles your fancy, and talking of tickling – 69! Over at Mistress Maddie’s- 69! Have you been filming yourself in the shower again? I thought I was bad. Jon’s result raised a knowing smile – but my eyebrows were surprised by your result. I didn’t think you’d better me for some reason!
      Sx

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      1. Inexplicable Device

        Oh, dear, it sounds like I have inadvertantly got myself a reputation through poorly worded observations. I only meant that all the points in Maddie’s scorecard thingy add up to 69, not that all MY points add up to 69. I’m “only” a lowly 21. Or possibly a slightly less lowly 29. Possibly.

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      2. Scarlet Post author

        Mr Devine – Apologies!! Probably my mistake as my eyes are a little bit tired and I leapt on the no.69 as being your score. This means that Jon has done everything on the scorecard twice! I’ve been very slow today.
        Sx

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      3. Jon

        Just twice?! If we’re counting the number of times I’ve done some of the things on that list, we’re talking Wembley Stadium sort of scale… Jx

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    2. Scarlet Post author

      Be at your wit’s end, Mr Mags, as that is a plugin for WordPress.org, and we are using WordPress.com, sadly.
      It is fine, I am going to start a fresh. I will keep the domain name for this blog, but let the other stuff go. I will tidy this place up as best I can when the paid for bits fall off and I will start afresh HERE.
      Sx

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      1. 63mago

        Oh damn – I never got me head around this comorgthing, sorry.

        Cool new outfit !

        I wanted to comment, but only google humans are allowed to do so. Will you allow the little people in, like wordpressers and such weirdos ?

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