Originally Posted by harwood red (Post 510302)

Can I please make one minor critisicm??

Ok will do it anyway!!!

I'm really not keen on the new smilies and it takes too long to access the others. I don't think the new ones are emotive enough, like the big cheesy grin or winking smilie we had before. I know they are still there but it takes so long to access them!!!

Originally Posted by flashytart (Post 510350)

you aint on your own there Lesley, i dont like them either, they dont express your emotions like the others did

ROY PLEASE CAN WE HAVE THEM BACK??? PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE :D

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp (Post 510404)

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 510105)

I had to make it private two yers ago, after a bit of a hoo-ha.

When they came back today, mine was public again, so I've had to reprivatise it.

If there's a way of editing out every reference to persons other than myself, it might someday reappear.

I did re-read some of it today. Boo-hoo, I've not slept. This disease is a nightmare, and then there were the name dropping entries, listing people I 'knew'.

Some of it was funny though, and did make me laugh, and self amusment is such a nice quality to possess.

I have blogged anonymously on a site, these past two years, and it did allow one a certain freedom to be more...graphic, but I do miss my old journal on here. It was like a diary, but it spoke back to you.

Therein lay the problem. It wasn't a private diary. One in which I could air all my family's linen.

Time to shut up waffling, or this post will look like a blog entry.:D

Originally Posted by Lilly (Post 510627)

I've not had experience of blogs, either on here or elsewhere so I'm not having a go at you, merely asking a question.

I was under the impression that a blog is supposed to be read by others so what's the point of writing a blog that only you can access on a forum? :confused:

You might aswell just write in a diary at home if there's only you reading it.:confused:

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 510730)

I've written a diary every day since I was seventeen, that was until having Parkinson's made that physically impossible. I used the blog on AW as my own diary, and mentioned private family things that were happening at the time, that I shouldn't have.