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The journal
Experimenting with the WordPress app on my new iPad. Beginning to love the iPad especially the HUGE Fonts available, in fact it’s rather weird going back to the iPhone! the iPad is ideal for us oldies with failing eyesight. A problem for new entrants is that you need a computer & iTunes account to get […]
Just trying out the new scribefire extension for chrome, looking good so far. Lets insert an image:- Oh dear it needs a url, so already has to be on the web. No browse option Dragging images in only gives this Photo Booth-1.jpg Lets add a link to Mr Frisk winning the Grand National when Em was […]
Today’s walk with the Cambridge Rambling Club A team was a circular walk starting from Standon and then heading over to Much Hadham. Christine ably led the walk and 10 of us set off on the hottest day of the year so far! Mud rain & snow were but distant memories 🙂 Here is the […]
After 10 days of walking I completed The Thames Path from its rural source close to Cirencester and its 180+ mile twisty route to the Thames Barrier. The route encompasses a lot of famous place names associated with Royalty and the English upper classes in fact it could be a tour of them from The […]
Today we started of The Cotswold Way from Wotton Under Edge to Horton returning via Bays wood and open fields to Wotton. Very hilly for we Cambridge folk but fantastic scenery and the Bays Wood area looking very much like all England did before we started chopping all the trees down! Here’s the walk on […]
Here is our first day’s walk in The Cotswolds. A pretty damp day with a cold wind on the tops. Amazing to see and smell the woods filled with wild garlic & bluebells. We still managed a few circles in the woods even with 4 GPS’s between us! As you can see here:- Wotton to […]
I spent tonight shortening all my USB cables so that my electronics can pack away neatly. In the past I have carried a rats nest of cables & Power Supplies with me. The result of tonight’s endeavours is shown above. It’s now below 2Kg including the Asus power supply, Garmin GPS, Olympus uTough camera, Eee […]
Now the business & office is sold. The big house move is behind me and my other house is renovated and let out it’s time to start travelling! Next week, after our weekend in The Cotswolds, I’m rambling all 184 miles of The Thames Path from its source near Kemble to the Thames barrier, Sally […]
Today 10 of us set out, ably led by Ron & Margaret, on the Cambridge Rambling Club’s A team walk. It was a 40 mile trip from Cambridge to the start in Hockham Picnic site car park. We were out to spot Pingo’s although according to Wikipedia they are actually collapsed Pingo’s although personally I […]
Today’s Cambridge Rambling Club ‘A’ team ramble was led by Vera. 12 of us set off from Toft (well actually from Gresham Road, Cambridge). Twas a gorgeous sunny day with lots of blossom on the trees with cowslips and a few bluebells making their 2010 appearance. We wended our way from Toft through Great Eversden, […]