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Post by dracco on May 16, 2017 14:19:02 GMT
.......but it helps
....or at least it would if I could get the @&***!! photo to display properly.
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Post by cusqueno on May 18, 2017 10:53:18 GMT
.......but it helps
....or at least it would if I could get the @&***!! photo to display properly.
I don't know how you are trying to display your photo. The best way is to up-load it to one of the on-line photo sites, such as Flickr, and then use a link from that. Usually you can obtain code from the site that allows you to embed the picture in your post - use 'BBCode' if available. This will then give you something like this: DFR4_9 by Cusqueno, on Flickr
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Post by dracco on May 18, 2017 13:04:58 GMT
"The best way is to up-load it to one of the on-line photo sites, such as Flickr, and then use a link from that."
That's exactly what I did: A link from my photobucket account.
Just like that! (Except that this time it didn't even put in the little black box with the X in it)
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Post by oldroadietehachapi on May 18, 2017 15:56:51 GMT
"The best way is to up-load it to one of the on-line photo sites, such as Flickr, and then use a link from that."
That's exactly what I did: A link from my photobucket account.
Just like that! (Except that this time it didn't even put in the little black box with the X in it)
Like you, I have yet to make this work. Perhaps some of the other users will provide a step by step primer for people like me. Cheers Jim
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Post by Jem on May 18, 2017 17:13:59 GMT
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Post by Jem on May 18, 2017 17:22:15 GMT
Here's a quick tutorial... Step 1) - (which you have already done Dracco) is to join an online photo storage site such as Photobucket or Flickr , both are free. Then upload from your computer or phone to that site. Then view that picture in your library/store. then... step 2) Copy the IMG line of code from Photobucket , highlighted on pic below in grey Then literally just paste it in these reply boxes...There are more complicated ways to do it, but this is the quickest /simplest, but not the most obvious Hope this helps?
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Post by Jem on May 18, 2017 17:24:34 GMT
Re. Water bottle - I drank some of that Pocari Sweat a while back in Taiwan....didn't get a liking for it as the name just put me off.
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Post by oldroadietehachapi on May 19, 2017 0:48:46 GMT
"Then literally just paste it in these reply boxes..." Copy and pasting the IMG Works! Thanks! Jim
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Post by dracco on May 22, 2017 17:20:35 GMT
Thanks Jem!
Now I can give the background to the photo.
Bedlam is a village in North Yorkshire. (I'm particularly tickled by the "please drive carefully" appendix.....as opposed to "Please drive like a lunatic").
I passed through this last weekend on a ride around Nidderdale (one of the less well-known Yorkshire Dales) that passes by Harrogate and through Knaresborough. Bedlam was one of the several little local oddities I passed through, like:
Originally built as a toll road (very straight, and directly into the wind) this was apparently named after the Penny Pot pub at the Harrogate end (no longer in existence). Alternatively the toll users dropped a penny into a pot at the toll house, and the lane and the pub were named retrospectively. From this road, you get a wonderful view of Yorkshire's (alleged) spy base:
The geodesic domes are on on Menwith Hill - “HMS Forest Moor” according to the road sign, despite apparently being closed as a naval station in 2003. Now it’s badged as “RAF Menwith Hill” (although it’s alleged that the majority of personnel are US military) where it acts as a listening post for (allegedly) the intelligence community (GCHQ) who listen to everyone’s mobile phone calls, and (allegedly) acts to control drone strikes as well as (allegedly) communicating with strategic nuclear missile submarines (SSBNs).
You can cross the Nidd at a small number of (well-separated) bridges, but for those in the know, you can drop down from Menwith Hill through the village of Darley (with a nice view up the dale)....
....until you arrive at this hidden gem midway between the mainstream bridges at Summerbridge and Birstwith
Being neither a motorcycle nor a car, much less a commercial vehicle or tractor, and DEFINITELY weighing less than 3.5 tons this makes an idiosyncratic short cut along a narrow lane running in front of some nice front gardens.
Bedlam, I should say, has nothing to do with the famous lunatic asylum in London. The name apparently derives from Old English "Botlum", meaning "at the houses". It was one of the villages that this year's TdY passed through, although fortunately I was riding along it in the reverse direction (there's a long 10% gradient down into the village, and I wouldn't have liked to be going up it.)
So - let's see if this copy 'n' paste has worked.
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Post by Jem on May 22, 2017 19:06:39 GMT
So - let's see if this copy 'n' paste has worked. Worked magnificently! I loved the 'allegedly' clauses...
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