Ok - I'm going to give this a go...........




YIPEE! It worked - thanks Alan - you're a star!

OK, next question Al. How are you with mountain bike hydraulic disc brakes?

Dump the brakes and use your shoes like all boys!

Brakes are for wimps!

Don't talk to him about Mountain Bikes.
It dramatically raises his blood pressure, and that is bad for the man.



Oooerr, Now I've Done it!

Thought I would give it a go, pics that is.

Hey Andy, I'd show you mine but now I don't know how to embed a photo in the text box.

I have sent you an email about that

Like this?

Woo hoo! Yes, like that!

Now I just need a photograph of me with the right tent...

Cake is good; vetters also accept cake!

Well, if we get a place I suppose it will depend who our vetter is

Looking at the vetters, tipsy cake or rum babas would be appropriate!

Not a fruit cake?

Christmas cake would be good. Plenty of fruit and nuts and soaked in whisky; or is that a bit close to home?
Ah! Tipsy Cake, memories of youth when it was available from almost every baker's shop but I have not seen it in years. Is it still available north of the border.

Here's my attempt at inserting a portrait into the massage board, thanks for the tips, hope it works!

Did you see my glasses, dear ? It works ! But not for me.

Tried something else. Hope it works.

Afternoon all

Okay, Andrew, I admit to complications. (Hangs head in shame.)My picture wasn't directly from Picasa, I had to lift it from there, and then email it back to myself before my boss (the computer) offered me the menu with the option to copy the URL. Picasa didn't give me that option! I've been working with Picasa for years now, but it still sometimes defeats me. Anyway, it worked!

Oh no it didn't!

Perhaps this is more in character! But I still can't find a way to do it directly from Picasa.

I think when I picked the photograph in picasa, I right-clicked on it and selected properties. From there, I was able to copy and paste the URL address into the Avatar box. Then remove the 's' from the https...
Hope this helps.

Aaaargh - still can't find the flippin' URL, Louise, even in 'Properties'. I'd tried looking there before. Can't understand it. Gonna slurp some more of that Ardbeg...

It look likes this : https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-JX0Zex6M......

I have never seen so many beautiful/handsome* Challengers on one thread in my life!

But still nothing from the man who started this thread.
How's it going with the picture, Stuart?

* Delete as appropriate

Thanks, Alan, another technical mystery solved....!

no idea what I'm doing

True Andrew, its time for my annual hair cut !! The annual worry that I might have used up all the hair I have left to grow is upon me and I will have to wear a woolly hat evermore.

Not sure if this will work ...

No. Didn't think it would.

I managed to get my picture on previously but it has disappeared and replaced by an insipid no entry sign.

I'll have another go using Alan's method.

I am using a different laptop, yet another cast off from the kids, don't know if this makes any difference.

Well done! I read through the old thread, removed the "s" and still couldn't get it to work. Maybe it doesn't link with facebook .... I don't have any other online photos.

Trying again ...