how do you put a pic on here from your own pic that you have taken

You can’t upload it here. You need to upload it to somewhere else like picasaweb and then use the ‘IMG’ button to embed the link to it

I am totally pond life when it comes to pooters . The only time I’ve managed to upload a photo was using photo bucket.
I pressed a button and there was the picture on the forum.
Whether I could do it again we shall have to see.

Upload to Photobucket, then once it’s in your album, tap on the pic and you’ll see a little italic ‘i’ in a white circle in the lower right. Tap that and you’ll get a list of options, tap the bottom one and it’ll copy the link, then just paste into the page here.
It looks like this:

The pic will be this: