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By pure chance I was on Merrion Street (between New Briggate and Vicar Lane) yesterday (October 29 2014) at 11:30 a.m. and was surprised to see a New York yellow taxi . I was even more surprised though to see Marilyn Monroe (well OK , a gorgeous look-alike) dressed like Marilyn in her famous white frock . There is a report in the Yorkshire Evening Post today about the scene which was to do with a coming opening of a New York-style bar called the Manahatta (note the spelling which I've read elsewhere is said to be the original spelling of what is today's Manhattan).

I have (hopefully that I do it right with the new site ) added a photo of the taxi. I briefly spoke to 'Marilyn' and she kindly answered that she was meant to be Marilyn Monroe, but I did not dare ask her if she mind if I took her photo in case she thought I might be a pervy bloke.

Ooops, I tried to add the only 138 kb photo but I got a message "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached". I may of course be doing it wrong .

Edit added shortly after original post. I've just been reading some FAQs and in one headed 'Can I post images' it stated "You cannot link to pictures stored on your own PC (unless it is a publicly accessible server)". I take this to mean that I will now no longer be able to post any photos, which is a shame (or not if you think otherwise ).

Lucky you ! I could understand it if you had claimed to see Marilyn at 11:30 PM. I have just returned to "leodis".I'll need to relearn how to navigate this new site.

Leodian
I assume you can still post through photobucket and the like
will try and see

Yes that works. Just a random photo of abbeydale

I have just tried to see if I can now add the much reduced photo of the New York yellow taxi that I photographed on Merrion Street on October 29 2014 but I again got the message "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.". I may be doing it wrong, but if I am doing it right then it does seem that I can no longer add photos that are only stored on my computer, as I do not want to have to join a photo hosting nor a social network website in order that I can add photos to the new Secret Leeds website. Its a negative feature of the otherwise seemingly excellent website.

Leodian wrote:I have just tried to see if I can now add the much reduced photo of the New York yellow taxi that I photographed on Merrion Street on October 29 2014 but I again got the message "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.". I may be doing it wrong, but if I am doing it right then it does seem that I can no longer add photos that are only stored on my computer, as I do not want to have to join a photo hosting nor a social network website in order that I can add photos to the new Secret Leeds website. Its a negative feature of the otherwise seemingly excellent website.

Agree with you Leo. Is there any reason for this Duncan or " can it be sorted "

uncle mick wrote:

Leodian wrote:I have just tried to see if I can now add the much reduced photo of the New York yellow taxi that I photographed on Merrion Street on October 29 2014 but I again got the message "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.". I may be doing it wrong, but if I am doing it right then it does seem that I can no longer add photos that are only stored on my computer, as I do not want to have to join a photo hosting nor a social network website in order that I can add photos to the new Secret Leeds website. Its a negative feature of the otherwise seemingly excellent website.

Agree with you Leo. Is there any reason for this Duncan or " can it be sorted "

Possibly a timing issue Duncan posted this
http://www.secretleeds.com/viewtopic.ph ... 36#p109324 about an hour after Leo's post saying that he has upped the quota for uploads. Have another go Leo

This is another attempt to post the photo of the taxi

Edit after posting:- It worked . Thanks Duncan for sorting the problem out.