Testing

19:00, Wednesday. I noticed some problems with adding images to posts yesterday at reference 1. With this post being the result of a join in Google maps prompting me to do another test.

19:45. 'Insert image' from Windows 11 laptop still not working. The choices being load from computer, load from Photos, load from Blogger or load by URL. I usually use load from computer, this being the option which is not presently working. Yet to work out how to load one from 'Photos', another Google application. 

20:00. Added an image to Photos on the Samsung telephone. Tried sending it to myself in various ways, but this does not seem to result in anything appearing in the 'load from photos' tab in 'Insert image'.

20:10. From within the new 'Insert image' dialogue, searched Photos for 'October'. Nothing. Ditto 'December'. Ditto '2022'. Searched it for 'May' and got the image above, which I was able to insert, albeit the wrong way up. No idea just presently where or how I might find the original or how it wound up in Photos. But the original is probably the work of the older granddaughter.

20:30. Started to worry about all this crashing around. Was I going to damage something? Was there an alternative?

22:00. Tried to move the action downstairs using the image I started with. But not visible, despite it being in the usually reliable OneDrive and this last claiming to be up to date. But it did turn up after a few minutes and it is included above, using the new 'Insert image' dialogue box in old Windows 10.

The point of interest being that it is one of those places where the join between two chunks of Google imagery actually shows up, on the middle pillar, where there is some duplication. Duplication which was camouflaged by the enlarged pillar now looking rather like its right hand neighbour, which really is larger. I have failed to work out why this pillar was larger than the rest of them: perhaps something to do with some former use of the building. Maybe it was not built as a public house?

At least the two chunks more or less match: occasionally they don't and one gets two quite different images, from two quite different times, from two quite different cycles of refurbishment, depending on the angle of approach. Maybe one day I will find out how Google organises all this.

The point of looking being that this was a restaurant which we used to like and used to use from time to time, but which has changed its name. Probably fairly recently as we only noticed yesterday, on our way to a rather different establishment, the Toby Carvery in Ewell East. And search does indeed reveal reference 2. Maybe we will pay a visit and see what is going on.

Inspection suggests that, despite my positive memories of the place, we last visited around six years ago, as noticed at reference 3. How did we come to miss out?

07:30, Thursday. Been playing with Google Photos, which seems to be quite different from Google Drive, and I have succeeded in loading up a few images. Furthermore, I have succeeded in rotating one of them and including it above using the 'Insert image' dialog box in Blogger.

A snap taken from a wadge of material sent to me by the Labour Party yesterday. Like some charities, you give them a bit of money and they spend a fair chunk of it sending you junk. Not to mention the flashy new membership card with its broken Union Jack. Lets hope their marketing people know what they are doing.

But there was some more good news. Processing this Labour Party and the other material which came in the same post, I have now turned off the thing in the camera on my telephone that was activating QR codes which happened to be in things that I was snapping - like that above. I have also found a decent day view in the calendar on my telephone, something that had hitherto eluded me in the months that I have had it. The answer seems to be to work in month view rather than week view. Click on a day and you get a decent day pop up.

PS 1: a king sized portion of beef from the Toby Carvery. Just to prove that adding the snap previous was not a fluke. A substantial, very reasonably priced meal, plated and priced so that the waitress can do the bill by just counting up the various sorts of plate. A waitress who, I might say, despite being busy, found time to be pleasant and helpful. Vegetables a little tired, perhaps inevitable in a buffet operation of this sort, but including real cabbage. 

PS 2: This morning's Financial Times tells me that a new book by Labour's Rachel Reeves (and a small herd of research assistants) has been a little lax about acknowledging its use of Wikipedia, amongst other sources. This despite the book including a substantial list of sources. To my mind, one should certainly say if one is using Wikipedia, but it is less clear when one ought to check, which can be expensive in time, given that Wikipedia is pretty reliable and I don't catch it out very often. Maybe checking a sample of the material you are using against other sources would be fair.

PS 3: 21:20, Thursday. It looks as if the new version of 'Insert image' has been taken down and we are back with the old one again. For the time being, anyway. With this image loaded from the Windows 11 laptop.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/10/cricketers.html.

Reference 2: https://ristoranteamalfi.co.uk/.

Reference 3: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2017/09/dinner.html.

Reference 4: https://www.tobycarvery.co.uk/restaurants/south-east/ewellepsom#/.

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