Yesterday it rained, seriously rained, and not realising that an online friend was living in France I got worried when she talked of a forecast of another week of heavy rain. Not good news, I thought, contemplating our own impending family holiday in the UK. 
Huge relief this morning to wake to glorious sunshine (and to realise my mistake regarding said friend’s location.) And to find on a 15 day forecast (likely to be unreliable I know, but still) that we should have some dry days next week, even if not a heat wave.
The rain yesterday was helpful in one respect though – it started me on a read-through of current WIP, which turned into a light edit, which I quickly realised was cutting a significant number of words from the total, mostly in ones and twos. That is a very good feeling, as cutting away the slack is always satisfying, almost as satisfying as getting new words on the page.
Today I managed that as well, tackling an event that I’d been putting off writing about for some time. I’m not quite finished yet, but pleased with the way it’s going and though today the word count is going up and down, i’m keeping track both of cuts and new writing and correspondingly encouraged on both counts. 
And WordPress? Well, I’ve been trying over the last two weeks to re-vamp my rather boring website / blog to make it more user-friendly and, I hope, more colourful and interesting. Having solicited advice I was asked why I had blog posts on my home page and was told I should try to separate them and leave my ‘landing page’ uncluttered.
Once I’d worked out what ‘landing page’ meant, I googled for WordPress help and found clear instructions for what I wanted. (Extremely clear – I managed at first attempt.) However I found that WordPress defaults to posting onto the home page, so now I’m wondering, is there a good reason for that? Should I have changed? Or was it just one of the vagaries of the WordPress system?
On a roll I thought I’d tackle the issue I really want to solve – how to have a page with a contact form on it that would allow anyone visiting my site to leave me a message and their contact details. There does seem to be an ‘Add Contact’ button – only problem is, although the preview shows a blank form, when i upload it onto a page it miraculously becomes pre-populated with MY details. Not what I want at all.
So if any of you technically savvy folk out there can help, I’d be very grateful…