Month: May 2010
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Sunday’s walk around Pakenham
With the Cambridge Rambling Club A team skirting the coastline of the Isle of Wight. Sally and I decided to do a jaunt with the Newmarket Ramblers. Debbie led 15 of us on a good walk around the Suffolk countryside, it was advertised as 11 but ended up at 12.3. A good pace was kept…
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iPad first post
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…
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Scribefire now available for Chrome
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…
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Standon circular walk
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…
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The Thames Path
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…
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More of The Cotswold Way
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…
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Wotton to Tyndale monument circluar wark
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…
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Geoff’s travelling gadget bag!
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…
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Following river courses to and from their sources!
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…