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If you have Microsoft Paint on your computer, it's quite a straightforward process to load your dormouse into it and reduce the dimensions of the picture, then re-upload it to WP.....

Please can you explain to Sylkat how to do that. I hate for her to be sad.

I see the Krab has gone walkabout again.

Okay, here goes:

(I'm assuming the dormouse picture is saved on Sylkat's computer. If not, it needs to be.)

I'm giving directions based on MS Paint as it appears in Windows 8.1. Earlier versions may differ a little.


1. Open MS Paint.

2. Click on 'File' in the top left corner.

3. Click on 'Open'.

4. A large window should have opened showing all the pictures in the 'Pictures' file. Left click on the dormouse picture to highlight it, then click 'Open' below.

5. The dormouse picture should now be shown in the top left corner of the screen. Click on 'Resize' above it.

6. The horizontal and vertical dimensions of the picture are given by default as 100. If you want to reduce the picture to 60% of its original size, amend these figures to 60. Click on 'OK' when you have done this.

7. Click on 'File' in the top left corner, as in step 2.

8. Click on 'Save As'.

9. Click 'Save' in the window which should now have appeared. You may have to amend the file name of the newly reduced picture before the computer accepts this instruction. For example, if the original picture was designated 'dormouse', you could amend it to 'dormouse2'.

10. The new version of the picture should now be in your computer's Pictures' file. See if WP will now accept it. If not, you could always reduce it further by following the above steps.

Hope the above is useful to Sylkat, and to anyone else.

DeepHour- thank you very much for taking the time to write that.

Sylkat, I hope you can get your dormouse back soon.

Hey Mr Krabo man, where are your thoughts tonite?
Are you thinking about all the thoughts you thought tonite?
Or are you thinking about all the thoughts you could have thought tonite?
If only you hadn't thought all the thoughts you thought tonite
you could have thought the thoughts you didn't think tonite

Thank you for that very useful guide, DeepHour.

Sylkat, I hope we'll see your cute dormouse again soon!

^We certainly do.

Nice poem syzygyish.

Hi Skilpadde

Hi there, Moomin

I hope all is well with you (and everyone here).

I've got a lot of stuff going on here at the moment. It is going to go one of two ways, either things will slow down in the next few weeks, or they will get very hectic indeed. Time will tell.

We are in full New Zealand Spring mod, which means torrential rain, gales and thunderstorms. Looking forward to dry weather again.

Hey, Mooms. Nice to hear from you again.

Thanks Murihiku

I hope you are well, I must send you a message but things have been hectic here. I haven't stopped for the last couple of weeks. It's going to go on for at least another week, then it will get nice and quiet again, or very interesting things will happen. I'll tell you more about it soon.

Dear Moomingirl,

Could you send a few of your torrents to California?

Please?

I had a very nice summer, filled with board and card games, DVDs and other nice times.
The last week or so has been somewhat stressful with too much going on, none of them positive, but things have calmed down now.

The most “exciting” thing that happened was a (very small yet scary) fire. It was the first time ever that I experienced a fire, and I can live very well with never seeing one again. We were having pizza (frozen pizza, as always) and I was gonna put the second pizza in the oven. The baking shelf was already in and I was putting in the baking paper when I saw a light. I was confused since there is no light that far down. I stared at it, then I suddenly realized that the paper was on fire. I quickly turned around and threw it into the sink. I was just thinking that I should turn on the tap to make sure the fire was doused when the flames shot up in the air. In just a second they were about to reach the cupboard over the sink. At that point I panicked and just started shouting for my dad, yelling somewhat hysterically: “It’s burning! It’s burning! It’s burning! It’s burning!“ Luckily the paper burned itself out and the flames died down without the cupboard catching fire, and he turned on the tap to extinguish the glowing embers. Those few seconds were real long. I thought maybe I should slap at the flames but I didn’t see anything suitable. I thought I should run and get water, but I didn’t dare leave the fire.
For days I had flashbacks where it didn’t turn out so lucky; in those I would burn my fingers, or a piece of the paper would fall off and either put the stove or the floor or my foot on fire, or the cupboard caught fire or I had my arm over the paper in the sink to turn on the tap when the flames shot up.
I’m still apprehensive about the stove. In all my years of using stoves, I’ve never before experienced a baking paper catching fire. It really startled me.



Let’s hope it will slow down for you! Stress no good.

Will you please send Sylkat some of your rains?

I would love to send Sylkat my rain. Do you think Fedex would deliver?

Wow Skilpadde, that sounds really scary. I'm so glad you weren't hurt.

I don't see why not? You might wish to use Fedex Express though



Thanks, it was real scary. I was shaky for the rest of the evening.

Dear Sylkat:

So sorry to miss your delightful avatar. It's not the same without it! If it's saved on your computer it should be no problem to get it back. Use the "edit avatar" function on your "my account" profile. If it's not saved on your system you will have to search for it again online (e g "images of dormice on flowers") and then reduce the image to the required size?

We have also had plenty of showers around here and all our local dams are full and the rivers flowing strongly. Maybe we could use Mr Delivery to send you some?