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A Radiant Lily and a Test

Lily with pink and apricot tints and dark speckles on a creamy background

My last post, on the quirky terraced house gardens of Hebden Bridge did not appear in WordPress’s Reader, so if you check out posts that way, you’ll have missed it. I’ll test the power of crossing my fingers for good luck as I publish this post since that seems as likely to fix the problem as anything else.

The Happiness Engineers could not arrange for my happiness by correcting the glitch and did not seem to fully appreciate the issues, which were a little strange. They included (1) the post showing as being scheduled at least 24 hours after it was published and visible on my blog and (2) the blog showing in the Reader as not having been updated for over a week, even though it had been.

Whether there will be a rapprochement so this post will appear is anyone’s guess. With all the horrors going on in the world as I write, it hardly seems a big issue, even for me.

But back to this lovely lily, one of several varieties at their peak in May Vidacovich’s garden when we visited earlier this year. I didn’t ask the name and rather wish I had, but May would never have got her tea if I’d have asked her all the questions that came to mind as I explored her wonderful landscape.

Shared for Cee’s Flower of the Day. 

35 Replies to “A Radiant Lily and a Test”

  1. I’m not a Reader fan. Nevertheless I’ve just checked. And you’re there. That lily seems to be quite a Happiness Engineer in its own right!

  6. This post has appeared just fine, but I don’t recollect the previous one, however I’ve not been checking daily at the moment. The lily is rather lovely.

    1. It did appear under a few tags. That was what was so puzzling – some bits were fine and others weren’t. I liked the mix of colours on the lily.

  8. It’s a lovely lily and yes, I use the Reader and it often has blips. I did see and read your last post from there, but I was quite cross when my last Monday’s post was shown as being published 2 days earlier than the Monday. I couldn’t understand how or why, but it’s quite frustrating sometimes.

    1. You were an exception, I think. Do you follow some tags as well as bloggers? Regarding your predated post, if you work on a draft for a few days, the system sometimes dates the post for earlier in the drafts process, which is why I scheduled the ‘missing’ post, as that usually fixes it. In this case I didn’t allow enough time, just a couple of minutes and I think that’s how it didn’t appear.

      1. That’s worth knowing, hon, because my walks often take me several days to compile, and I seldom think about scheduling. No, I don’t follow tags. Can I ask you if you find my photos to load very slowly? I know this is an annoyance, especially in a photo heavy post, and I received a ‘complaint’ the other day.

  9. I am signed up for email for your posts, so I don’t have to worry about the reader. WP though is failing to send out emails to my followers who aren’t WP bloggers, and try as I might I can’t fix that bug (sigh). Very disappointing!

    1. Have you tried the Happiness Engineers? If that problem is affecting you, there’s a fair chance it is happening to many more people too.

  10. I never use the Reader, I get email notifications of your posts and have never had a problem. The lily is lovely and well worth a photo 🙂

  12. I’m glad you mentioned it because I didn’t get it in Reader, and I’d have never known I’d missed it. I don’t understand WordPress much at all and I’m just glad when anything works and not surprised when things don’t work. It’s my way these days. The lily is other-worldly.

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