Tuesday 23 June 2015

Having the movers in.

In London Pickfords were the people to call iffn you had the dosh and the brain to hire them to move. However most men, at est most young men are very arrogant and think heck it's only a few boxes. Well I learnt the hard way. There are still things missing from moves I made myself. Yes it may cost £€700-1000 to move contents and add as much to pack a 2-bed flat but for five guys and a truck to lift your shit up and move it across town to kiss it down in the rooms designed is worth every penny.
Now I really don't know why this entered my head today.

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  1. My son and his girl had a nightmarish moving experience recently. I keep telling them to leave reviews anywhere they can online to, hopefully, spare others the same fate.

    I hope you're happy with this move. While I still have my blogger blog, I've been satisfied with WP.

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    1. I hit the buffers for uploading photos so it came to a question did I want to buy a Wordpress Blog, and the answer is an emphatic NO. So I could either keep deleting as I was doing every month or so given the file size of the new photos. And that's simply putting one in to push out the other end, that I just wasn't interested in doing. And you can get turn key e-commerce for less a year than WP costs to host the blog alone.

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  2. I'm nowhere near my limit on photos, then again...I'm not exactly uploading dense, quality stuff. Mine are mostly iPhone shots.

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  3. I could make them vastly smaller but where's the fun in that. The hilarious thing is the photo of the mountain was nineteen MB, that is twice what the browser of 2010 used. The iPhone can get quite big also if there are lots of contrasting colours near each other. The system used is like one of those paintbynumbers books.

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  4. The new address has been added to the blog roll. It was touch and go there for a minute when I was getting an error message and your blog was put at that very bottom of the list. But looks like all is well now. :)
    It is said that moving is the 2nd most stressful event in one's life, the first being a death. All of the times I've ever moved, whether as a kid in my parents' house, college from year to year, or my first condo, it's been a DIY move with pizza and beer as the reward for those you talk into help. When I moved into my house all of my friends were extremely helpful in giving me the phone numbers of some "cheap movers". It was worth every single penny. The whole packing and unpacking still sucked, but the process was so much easier.
    At least this move was fairly painless. I hope blogger isn't too much of a hassle for you. I wonder though, if you like WP well enough, are able to create a 2nd blog? On blogger you can have multiple blogs under your google account. I don't know if there's a total limit on all the blogs, but it doesn't seem to be. Just a thought.

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    1. Yeah, beer and pizza would work for a cute chick, not so much for a guy. At least not more than once. And in truth the 'owe' can make it vastly more costly esp if you have to take a day off to help more than one to return the favour.

      I thought I could move the blog out of W/P entirely, and I probably can but it'll take a bit of reading. On staying with W/P, no, not really. They have a few features I reeeeeeeally don't like. You can't block followers for instance. Who are these people that never comment but get my output. For lets face it it's not Pulitzer worthy writing, not helped by not rewriting to polish the things.
      There's certain features that are so 'just right' on other platforms, like twitter. There when dross is following you to build numbers you can block their ass. It's also tedious when you publish something and it takes ages to hit blogger blogs, not just yours alone. Kelly's w/p blog is the only one it hits instantly.Why does it matter I hear you say, well it matters for it niggles at you wondering if you've done something in error that hit a spam filter.

      What I found worth the cost of movers was them packing you up, picking it up and moving it lock stock and barrel so you had one room contents in one part of town moved into another in another part. In a way I'd have preferred to hand over £250 to help pay for movers and turn up for the beer and pizza afterwards. I know that sounds grinch like and outright mean, but city living is time poor. It usually takes a flipping day to get from one side of town to the other. I know for instance to get from NW to SE London and back is a nightmare. And if you met a woman from that side you'd NEVER consider it more than a hook up.

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    2. I've never understood why WP blogs don't update for Blogger users (I can see on Tracy's blog how long it takes mine to update, often days). So...it's why I put a "follow" feature on mine so those who are really interested in seeing it in a timely manner can get it via e-mail. Also, I have "lurkers/family" who read from the Twitter notification, which is fairly prompt.

      When the Google reader I loved went by the wayside, I switched to Bloglovin'. It updates all the blogs I read right away, whether WP, Blogger, TypePad or anything else.

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    3. That's not grinchish at all. Moving is a day long commitment as it is, then having to do it in traffic, ugh. I wonder whose traffic is worse - London or LA? I've been in a car in London traffic but never have I driven in it.
      I think the concept of having someone else do the packing in addition to the moving sounds good, but if I think too hard about it I'm not so sure. The idea of having some stranger all up in my business creeps me out a bit.
      I'm with you on the lurkers, but not because I feel like there's anything nefarious going on. I would like to know what brings someone from Portugal or Argentina to my posts. It's probably just a google search or the like, but it'd still be nice to know.

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    4. I don't mind someone arriving from abroad. In fact I rather like when I see the long list of countries. No, in Wordpress you have a Followers feature like with twitter. And if they are real people that's fine. But most of these are fake and the rest industry sites following for what reason I don't know.

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