Category:Holiday

Tom, Julie, Paul, Trish, John, Rosi, David and Lee joined us for Fish and Chips tonight (Karen wasn’t able to join us as she’s in Manchester). It was the first proper opportunity we had to catch-up with the gang since the wedding and the conversation flowed freely (with a little help of Rioja and Moet!!!) …
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My day-job requires me sometimes to be a bit of a ‘wordsmith’. My word-processor of choice is the mighty Microsoft Word, but one of my pet irritations is the way Microsoft Word adds the date to your document when you use the ‘insert date & time’ feature. 01 March 2012 is one example. I just …
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You wait for ages for one to come along… ..and then possibly the most useful Android app for a long while makes its appearance! If you live in London, or work there, or travel to the Capital once in a while. and have to get a bus from A to B, (that’s me!) this app …
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If you need to find the cheapest price for something, this is a great app. …and it’s. FREE! Check Out “Idealo” Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with …
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It’s Oliver’s birthday today and we drove down to Duxford Air Museum to meet-up with the Jedi-Knight himself with Roger & Jane. Wow! the Museum has changed – we haven’t been there for 20 years or more and there was so much more to see and do – simply brilliant! We started off in Hangar …
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Got an Android phone? Got a Wi-Fi printer too? Want to print photos, emails, appointments and more? Check Out “PrinterShare” Brilliant! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with …
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                      Just took delivery of this handsome beastie! It scans, it copies, it prints.. and it’s wireless too! Best news of all? It was cheaper than the printer it replaces (that one suffered a coronary just before Christmas). It’s still less than £150 those very …
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My flight’s status: SCHEDULED. Emirates 37 from DXB (14:55 GMT+04:00) to BHX (18:45 GMT) Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness for the art of writing …
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Ever since the Insignia got it’s software upgrade, the MPG has got better. Is that a coincidence? Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness for the …
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Paul, Karen, Tom and Julie came round tonight for a fish-and-chip supper. It was good to catch up with them – it feels like we haven’t got together for ages. We had a great time – the food and conversation was brilliant – amazing how something as simple and fish-and-chips can go down so well. …
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      Ann’s WORK phone looked like something out from the dark-ages that had also been run over by a steam-roller. In a previous life it appeared to have spent most of its day throwing itself against a brick wall, judging by the amount of dents and scrapes on it. Add to that, it …
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Nick, Celina and Hannah joined us for lunch. That meant ‘full-house’ here as we already has Lee, Ralph and Karen staying! Time to locate the ‘large-table-top’ that we had made a few years back (for Christmas time) that allowed us to get EIGHT of us around our dinner table (that’s really only designed for four …
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I drove over to the Premier Inn at Ferry Meadows in Peterborough tonight, and met up with Ian H, who’s this way on business. We caught up with this-and-that in the Beefeater next door and (surprisingly) managed to resist their new policy of ‘bottomless chips’! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not …
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Coming soon: The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G                 I want one! – but it has to be the 3G version. Hopefully arriving in August in UK shops… Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my …
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No, much better than just cider! David and Rosi invited us round for a late lunch, and we took Paul and Karen with us. Stuffed peppers, slooooow cooked lamb, fennel and potatoes followed by baked peaches with almond flavoured crème fraiche. Yummy yummy! In between enjoying the more-than-excellent food, we pronounced judgement on the recent …
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Well, it’s been around a month since I moved from my HTC HD2 (on WinMo) to an HTC Sensation (on Android). If you’re reading this, and trying to decide whether to switch OSs as I did, I’d say ‘go for it’, without hesitation. Although the learning curve was steep, it wasn’t as difficult as I …
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Yes, that is 64 GIGABYTES – all nicely held in a pen-drive! Nice one SanDisk. It’s going to replace my ageing 16Gb version that was running out of space. I picked it up from those nice people at Pixmania for around 40 quid less than anywhere else – and for some bizarre reason, it was …
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Due to an ‘MDSE’ – that’s a Multiple Diary Synchronisation Error – we ended up being invited to Jo and Janet’s AND Paul and Karen’s on the same evening! That’s very unusual for us, and our normally ‘well-oiled social machine’ – I blame switching diaries in the past two weeks.  The double-booking was great for …
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We popped around to David and Val’s tonight for our regular monthly food-fest. On this occasion, we ate-in, Val provided the mains and Ann provided the desserts. Yummy all round! Delyth was there, so we had an opportunity to catch-up with her too! By 10pm, my week in Sweden had caught up with me and …
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We spent most of the day round at Lee’s helping to pack up her things into boxes. This is in preparation for her her eviction in a few weeks. It´s just not right that because the person letting the property gets behind with their mortgage, that the innocent tenant is punished and thrown out -and …
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Well, the great surprise this year, is that weather has been (and is forecasted to be) SUPERB – mid 20s round here, which suits us perfectly. Whereas the rest of mankind is getting away from it all, we’re staying-put and doing some jobs around the garden. The new pressure-washer that I bought yesterday has already …
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