Thank you, Joan, Carol and Gwen, for the advice about this blogging business, and for the encouragement to make a blog easy on the eye.

Nothing is as easy as it sounds when first described, and little tips like how to move from blog to dashboard to editing links are handy.

The description by blogger.com of how to go about adding links needs to be treated with great attention to detail, as the location of the right bit of the template with the relevant reference to the sidebar is not necessarily as it first appears. My advice to any other new bloggers is first to choose a blog template that actually has links in it, and then to scroll down the relevant box (from the "template" tab on the dashboard) very carefully until you find the links provided, so that you can edit them to become the ones you want.