We jumped on the train from Bedford today and headed for Bromley South where we met up with Neil, Debbie, Alfie and Frankie. Armed with vouchers, we walked up the High Street to the Ask restaurant in Bromley (where we’d met up last August) for lunch and a good catch-up. A lot has happened in …
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Tablet Coaching: Getting Around & Core Apps
Auto cross-posted from my WordPress Blog: Today, we confirmed the Lesson Plans and looked at a typical layout of a Tablet screen, as well as an introduction to Android’s ‘Core Apps’.
Laptop Coaching: Recap – Google Maps/Data on DVDs
Auto cross-posted from my WordPress Blog: In this penultimate lesson (for this Class), we re-looked at Google Maps and discussed how to manage data to/from a portable DVD drive.
Laptop Coaching: OoBE!
Auto cross-posted from my WordPress Blog: Two of the pupils recently bought a new Laptop, so today, we looked at the OoBE (Out of Box Experience) when setting up a Laptop for the very first time.
Doctor Who – Christmas Special 2017
This short teaser-video appeared this morning on YouTube courtesy of Comic-Con 2017.
Neighbours get-together
Well, we haven’t done this for a while, so it was good to see everyone today. We never need an excuse to get together but today we had one! Rosi had organised a party for hubby Dave’s birthday. A tricky manoeuvre considering the weather has been all over the place these past few days – …
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Term Ending/Birthday Spending/D-Day Landing
Thursday – School Term EndingIt’s a Gambles-Get-Together! We travelled down to Roger, Jane and Oliver’s on Thursday for lunch and then an overnight stay and then catching-up with Denis and Bev tomorrow. After a quick bite, we watched part of the 400th Anniversary celebration on DVD of Oliver’s school – Richard Hale – that took …
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Laptop Coaching: Word Processing (Part 2)
Auto cross-posted from my WordPress Blog: Today, we continued our Lesson, looking at the main capabilities of most word processors
Laptop Coaching: Windows 10 Core Apps
Auto cross-posted from my WordPress Blog: Today we began to look at the Core Apps installed on ALL new Windows 10 Laptops. We began with the ‘Calendar’ app and then the ‘People’ app.
Who 13 revealed
Well, I didn’t see that coming! I deliberately avoided all social media and any other communication (successfully) for around four hours and eventually caught up with the news when we got back about 8pm). Apparently, at 4.26pm, in amongst the tennis coverage, Sue Barker made the announcement, and that was followed by a short teaser-video. …
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80-70-40!
We were on holiday when Chris and Pete had a Party to celebrate Pete’s 80th, Chris’s, 70th and them both being married (to each other!) for 40 years! Quite a milestone!, so it was good that we could invite them over to ours for a celebratory meal. As always, Ann worked her socks off in …
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Guess Who?
Well, that caught me out! Just as I thought (together with most other Whovians) that I’d learn the identity of the actor playing Doctor Who nearer to the Christmas episode – this appeared just after EastEnders! So, it looks like all will be revealed on Sunday, after the Tennis Finals!
Brampton Halt for Six!
Today was my second visit to the newly discovered The Brampton Halt Pub & Restaurant, about a 30-minute drive from ours at Chapel Brampton. I’d accidentally discovered it with John C a few weeks back when he and I met at Sedgebrook Hall (it was almost next door!). This time, we met up with Geoff …
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Laptop Coaching: Word Processing (Part 1)
Auto cross-posted from my WordPress Blog: Today, we began to look at the core abilities of modern word-processors.
Laptop Coaching: Windows 10 and the App Store
Auto cross-posted from my WordPress Blog: Today, in our third lesson covering Windows 10, we looked at the App Store.
A Day in Teigh
It was a great drive over to see our friends Nick and Celina today – and to see what progress they’d made with their recently acquire property – and to see their new additions to the family: ‘Salt’ and ‘Pepper’ – two six-week-old black and white kittens. Wow! what a transformation to the house since …
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Picnic at Belton House
With enough rations to last us a month, we headed off to Belton House with Chris and Gill for a picnic and a look round. Built for John Brownlow in the 1680s and home to around 300 fallow deer, we’d last been here around 15 years ago – but as usual, I didn’t remember any …
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Return to The Old Victoria
Another day and another Summer’s evening in a Pub! This time, it was to meet up with our friends, Richard and Pauline – returning to The Old Victoria in Burton Latimer. The food and service was, as usual, excellent!I have a feeling that my “£1-a-Day” event is going to be a lot tougher this year!
Sedgebrook Hall
What a perfect evening! I took the XKR and drove over to Sedgebrook Hall to meet up with John Cullwick, a business associate from my early days as a self-employed Management Trainer. We had a quick drink outside before taking the short walk to the Pub next door – Brampton Halt. It was …
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Tablet Coaching: Needs Analysis
Auto cross-posted from my WordPress Blog: The new Class started today, and we spent the morning agreeing the subject areas to be covered over the next 20+ weeks.
Laptop Coaching: Recap – Passwords
Auto cross-posted from my WordPress Blog: Today, we recapped best practices when creating strong and secure passwords.
Laptop Coaching: Windows 10 (Part 2)
Auto cross-posted from my WordPress Blog: Today, we continued to explore the features and benefits of ‘Windows 10’.
Doctor Who – Series 10, Episode 12: ‘The Doctor Falls’
Well, this is it! The final outing for Peter Capaldi as the Doctor and Steven Moffat as Lead script-writer and Showrunner. No doubt, the Interweb will catch fire tonight at around 7.31pm, just after the series finale ends and (presumably) the current Doctor morphs into the new actor playing the next incarnation of the titular …
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Belcanto Concert
A very pleasant evening tonight in the company of Belcanto – the choir that Valerie belongs to. Tonight was the launch of their debut CD at the Citadel in town where they performed a number of tracks from the Album. As a bonus we also enjoyed solo performances from Susannah Sturman on violin, and Edward …
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Film: Churchill
We haven’t been to the local Odeon for months, so it was good to break the habit today! We saw the afternoon matinee of Jonathan Teplitzky’s production of Churchill. With so many ‘big’ films today being dependent on an over-use of CGI, it was good to actually watch something that relied solely on quality acting …
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Laptop Coaching: Recap – ‘Photos’ App
Auto cross-posted from my WordPress Blog: Continuing our recap lessons, today, we re-looked at the Windows 10 ‘Photos’ app.
Laptop Coaching: What is Windows 10 (Pt 1)
Auto cross-posted from my WordPress Blog: Today, we ran an introductory session about the features and benefits of ‘Windows 10’.
Doctor Who – Series 10, Episode 11: “World Enough and Time”
Weird title though!Well, that was a good one! With so much going on, it was difficult to keep up – and if the pre-titles scene didn’t have Whovians everywhere reaching for their Twitter account, I don’t know what would have!!This was the penultimate episode for Peter Capaldi in the title role and also Steven Moffat …
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Canada and Alaska – Part 3, Day 5: Bye-bye Vancouver!
Weather permitting, it’s Queen Elizabeth Park (directions HERE) and Vancouver’s Botanical Gardens (directions HERE) before we close the suitcases on Canada for good this time round, and fly home. As things turned out the weather was much better than the forecast above showed – perfect for our last day here! It was a short SkyTrain …
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Canada and Alaska – Part 3, Day 4: Last Full Day in Vancouver
A lazy start to the day – we couldn’t even be bothered to walk downstairs for brekky! An excellent spread! Earl Grey Tea, Coffee, Waffles, Banana Pancakes – all with extra berries (and fat-free too!)…. Maybe!The weather looks a lot better today, so we’re off south to the town of Steveston using a mixture of …
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