I’ve just spent the major part of today trying to downsize our splendid display posters to fit on A4 sheets, on the grounds that they’d make wonderful handouts and flyers …

My first attempt looked great … and Gretchen asked me to email them to her.

Two hours later, and the bloody things were still loading. I looked at the file size. 30mb in total. Oops.

Okay … No problem. The pictures needed shrinking, you fool.

So far, so simple. Trouble is, no matter how much I shrunk the *@~&$%! pictures one of the sheets – the Garden Project one – resolutely remained absolutely enormous. It took me forever (and then some) to identify the culprit (although Sod’s Law being fully operational in this corner of West Cumbria I really SHOULD have known to start with the smallest photo on the sheet). It was no more than a thumbnail, but it accounted for a whopping great 5mbs all by its little self.

I’ve battered the three sheets into submission so that they’re now no more that about 3mbs each and therefore manageable by email.

My “To Do” list for today, however, remains virtually untouched.

B*gger technology.