This is purely a test

 We're off to Tasmania, land of my birth,  soon. 

As I need to wean myself off Facebook and grow more familiar with a better blogging platform,  I will journal our trip here,  on Dreamwidth.

Let's see

(a series of deleted failures to have a properly formatted photo within the text, using Google Photos, Flicker and the very Dreamwidth gallery feature itself.)



Looks like I'll have to come back to that.  

The solution of least resistance would be to use Instagram (to push out the photos to the hated Facebook and the corrupt Twitter) and to merely refer to them here - using this purely as a text based medium, until I can work out an effective way of posting appropriately sized photos using the mobile technology available to me.

Let's face it, I can't care about any external audience, this is purely for me - as a practice exercise and to get my head back into a consistent writing flow. A bad workman blames his tools - a terrible workman never picks them up in the first place.

And another thing

How easy is it to post from my iPhone (of course, I’m using my (not so) portable keyboard.

The answer may be to type out the post in plain txxt and then copy it into the website.

Another test mail post

With typing here

In multiple paragraphs