West Midlands Group reports month by month.

[JulienW]

  :)

It'll have to wait then as we are currently doing the 12 week self isolation... ;)

Our landlords (Age Concern Birmingham) have said that we can tack them onto the end of our contract (so they become the October, November & December meetings) but as I've been asked about doing a longer meeting on a weekend then I could suggest using the hours we have paid for for a longer (4 hours?) meeting on a Saturday / Sunday...

Or all 20+ of us could come to you in 13 weeks time  ;D

[Stan Williams]

Having a Saturday meeting greatly improves the chances of people travelling from longer distances, it has certainly worked for
the M&SWest Lancs group, especially with a lunch time start.
I am certain it would work just as well for other groups.

Stan.

[Hobby]

Just make sure it's not the one in four I (normally) work!! ;)

[JulienW]

We have managed a couple of virtual meetings.  The first one on April 6th didn't quite go according to plan as the notification with the Skype link not only went out a little late but also seemed to have fallen foul of spam filters so only 3 of us made it so we tried again on April 13th having learned our lessons and managed 9 of us.

There's a report (written by me) on the group's website here along with some photos.

We are planning another one on our next usual meeting night (11th May).

[JulienW]

I've just posted a report, along with a few photos, from the May virtual meeting (not sure if it was the month or the meeting that was virtual?) on the group's website here

[JulienW]

Sorry for not being very good at keeping this up to date, but the West Mids Mob have continued to meet through the wonders of the internet (aka the black arts!).

Probably the easiest way to access what we have been up to and see the 'full' reports (not the edited highlights that get into the Branchlines pages of 009 News) here is the link to the blog page of the group's website.

Linky thing

there are even some pictures too...

[JulienW]

Trying to keep up the good works with the addition of the April report to our website.

Thingy Link

[Hugh Norwood]

Just a quick question... could you make the photos any bigger? Or am I missing something?

Ta.

[JulienW]

Just a quick question... could you make the photos any bigger? Or am I missing something?

Ta.

Looks like I might be missing something too!  I thought that in putting the photos into a thing called a 'gallery' one would be able to click on the thumbnail in the report to see the bigger version but that appears not to be the case and I'm jiggered if I know how to do it myself (sorry)

I'll ask our tech expert...

[MickT]

I'm not technically aware Julien so this might just be "shooting in the dark", but I think the solution may be to put your thumbnails in as you do, but to use these as links to connect via a mouse click to larger (say 800 x 600 "conventional" size) images that are stored in your Flickr or Imgur or whatever hosting site.

I'm sure one of the proper experts we are fortunate to have contactable may be able to either confirm or provide the correct answer, which I think is a relatively straightforward task.

Mick

[JulienW]

 I had a bit of a poke about under the website's bonnet earlier today and managed to do two things.

The first was to enlarge the size of the thumbnails from 150 units (pixels?) square to just over 300. The second was to attach a link to the gallery of photos that was used to generate the thumbnails in the first place!

I might try the same trick (link to the gallery of images used) with some of the earlier reports.

[Webmaster]

If your website jockies need any help regarding getting the best out of Wordpress etc. then I am more than happy to assist if required, time permitting.

[JulienW]

Seems I forgot to put the May report up on our website, but I have just done the June one, which is here

[JulienW]

Another update with (who'da thought it!) a report from the July meeting here on our website.

[JulienW]

I've just published a report from the August meeting, here.  No photos this time as we hadn't done much, but hopefully there will be for September as (fingers crossed) we will be meeting in person!