battling with blogger!! thumbnails on the blogroll

Dear old blogger likes to keep us on our toes and has brought out a new puzzle for our eager  little minds. You may have noticed that your thumbnail image isn't showing on blogrolls over at blogs who follow you.

Blogger/Picasa have moved the goalposts on this one - again, and without warning -  and it's up to us to come running up behind. Why did they do this? - DUH ... I don't know.

I've had a couple of mails on this one so I thought I'd share the solution which was brought to me by the kind Gina of Art and Alfalfa  and Mark of All Things Ruffnerian

Here we go!

To have the first picture of your blogpost showing as a thumbnail on other blogrolls, you go back into Edit post and click the HTML button, Scroll down until you find the HTML code for the first picture in your post. Within that code you will find, once or twice this:

- https://...googleusercontent.com.

You need to make a couple of modifications, this is what you want -

http://...ggpht.com....

To RECAP https becomes http:/ / and googleusercontent.com becomes ggpht.com

We're going to have to do this on each new post now, c'est la vie.

There we are, a very romantic, poetic, and elegant post for this spring Saturday. Sometimes a girl just has to get practical.

Bon weekend à tout le monde.

PS  Thanks to Flickr for the picture, and to my 13 year old son, Jim,  for helping me work this one out.

PPS

  Coming tomorrow, the big bed reveal!!