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Quickly Testing A Thing

2 Comments Posted on October 13, 2014May 31, 2015 by Snoskred

So, with the return of The Walking Dead, I wanted to write a TV post or few, but I do not want to spoil anyone who has not seen the episodes yet..

I’m just testing a plugin that will allow me to put a read more tag in, so the entire post will *not* appear in the RSS feed or my emailed posts, and then you have to click through to read the rest, in order to avoid being spoiled.. Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday – Oahu

Leave a comment Posted on October 1, 2014May 31, 2015 by Snoskred

A night view taken from the top of the Ilikai Hotel, Oahu, HI

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New Feeds September

9 Comments Posted on September 30, 2014May 31, 2015 by Snoskred

New blogs added to the feedreader since 31 August –

50 Fat Dates
A Cartoon Guide to Becoming A Doctor
A CUP OF JO
A Life On Venus
ababsurdo.com
Artful Appearance
Cauldrons and Cupcakes
Cooker and a Looker
fivefairiesandafella
foto fräulein
Good Day, Regular People
It’s Time
JUST ME
Just me, Leah.
kindredsoulsinseoul
Kingfisher Cove
Life & Other Crises
Life, Love and Hiccups
Lukes Fishin’ Mission
Mrs BC’s House Of Chaos
Our Town Brisbane
Pamela J
Rustic Bites
Slapdash Mama
TARYTERRE
Woosang Was Here

Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers! There are 26 of you. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, which I liked a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so.

At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my blogroll. YAY! :)

Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment.

See previous new blogs for August – July – Plus view my Blogroll here!

New Feeds

Changes

2 Comments Posted on September 25, 2014May 31, 2015 by Snoskred

Just some blog housekeeping notes –

1. Updates –

have been made to the about and contact pages. Plus I added a whole new page for the Shoes link up.

Recently I was trying to send some of the bloggers I read an email – to say hi, and mention my new Shoe Linkup feature in the hope they might join in. I was dismayed to find some bloggers do not have any way at all to contact them privately – no email address, no contact page, nothing. Other bloggers do have a way to contact them but they make finding that way pretty difficult..

So, given that experience I have tried to make it easier for people to reach me privately if they so desire. I’ve always had a contact page and now I’ve added – Email Me! snoskred {at} gmail {dot} com to the sidebar and contact page. This means if anyone has trouble with the contact page they can now send me a direct email just by changing the at to a @ and the dot to a . :)

As a blogger you should test these things from time to time – some contact pages I tried to use didn’t work – some people I emailed I got a bounce back saying their mailbox were full or even worse, that the account did not exist! :(

2. Scheduling.

I try to schedule posts two weeks in advance for posting Mon-Wed-Fri-Sun here on the blog. I think 4 days a week is a reasonable schedule I can keep to, and it does not overwhelm readers with too much content.

Coming up in November is NaBloPoMo, which I will be participating in this year. This will mean a switch to a post every day for 30 days. I will try to keep the Tues/Thurs/Sat posts fairly light in content so they will not be overwhelming.

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Wordless Wednesday – Carter

1 Comment Posted on September 24, 2014May 31, 2015 by Snoskred

Carter Got Cold

Want to know more about Carter? Meet Carter – Carter Gets Dressed

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Wordless Wednesday – Box

Leave a comment Posted on September 17, 2014May 31, 2015 by Snoskred

Little Kitty checking out the new photography box

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Wordless Wednesday – Hand

Leave a comment Posted on September 10, 2014May 31, 2015 by Snoskred

I’m helpful, aren’t I, Human? Yes I am!

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Wordless Wednesday – Out Take

1 Comment Posted on September 3, 2014May 31, 2015 by Snoskred

Human, what ARE you doing?

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New Feeds August

8 Comments Posted on August 31, 2014June 17, 2015 by Snoskred

It has been a massive month of adding blogs to the feedreader. YAY!

I am trying to say hi via comments to all the blogs listed below – if I have not got to your blog yet my apologies. :)

If you have arrived here because your blog is linked below, you might want to read my thoughts for bloggers which was posted yesterday. You might find none of it applies to you, you might find a little nugget there to take away and use. :)

New Blogs In August –

You’ll notice a bit of a fashion blog trend this month. People, out there in the world there is quite a movement afoot of fashion bloggers and more specifically curvy fashion bloggers. The more of them I add to my feed reader, the more I feel a balance of the images I am seeing on a daily basis shift in the direction of reality – people who look more like me and the people around me – rather than 95% stick thin celebrities and models and 5% real people.

Two Lists –

I’ve separated the Australian Blogs into a different list from the international blogs. I may have sometimes got it wrong – this might be because the general location of where a blogger lives was not on the about page, nor was it evident in the posts, or it might be that I missed seeing it. As I said, a lot of reading was going on. :)

If you are on the wrong list, let me know in the comments for this post.

Why two lists? Generally to make the sorting things into folders at a later date easier.

All blogs added this month went into two separate folders in my feed reader – as you see –

Blogs I add in September – October – November – etc – will also go into two separate, new folders. After 6 months, I will go through the blogs in these folders and make a decision on whether I want to keep reading them long term, and then they will get added into my permanent folders – and added permanently to the blogroll here on Life In The Country. :)

Enough with the typing, here are the blogs!