[A nostalgic nod to all those cars, usually Citroën 2CVs, which we used to see in the 70s being driven around with “Nuclear Power: Nein Danke” window stickers.] Upgrading hardware can be contagious, can’t it? Before our spring migration to…
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Cracking Tracking
While I was in France on our recent spring trip – feels like a very long time ago, now – I managed to lose one of my lens caps. I seem to recall attempting to lose another of my lens…
First Usage
In Nouvelle Année, Nouveau Guide des Papillons, I introduced my speculative purchase of a French field guide to butterflies. I had wanted to replace my aging Collins Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe for some time and…
Cyclic Redundancy Check Nightmares
As a purist, I was a relatively late convert to digital photography. I soldiered on with V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W Fuji Velvia slide film (nominally 50 ASA but more like 40 ASA in reality) for ages before finally converting to digital in…
Anglesey Abbey
We live in a perverse country. I’d never really recovered from the disturbing discovery that Leeds Castle is in Kent. Today, I could have been forgiven for thinking that February 1st was actually April 1st. Carol announced that she would…
New Year, New Broadband
Possibly the last of my “New Year” posts. We’re a long way from our telephone exchange and have been suffering from a paltry 1.3Mb broadband speed for some time. Whilst investigating the supposed availability of fibre optic broadband services in…
New Year, New Camera
Yet another in the recent New Year series: a camera this time – for Carol. Her eyes were swayed by a relative giveaway price for a Canon EOS 550D on good ol’ Amazon. Her old 400D has stood her in good…
New Year, New Computer
My trusty old Sony Vaio desktop has been getting increasingly snowed under with the weight of modern versions of software and its workload. It’s all of eight years old, poor thing, but it has been faultlessly reliable and it struggles…
New Year, New Hard Disk
Exactly 50 weeks ago [and, yes, I am counting] from Tesco Direct we bought me a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop: 4Gb RAM, 500GB hard drive. In terms of power and storage, my new Windows 7 machine dwarfed my very elderly…
Winter Visitors Return
There aren’t many advantages to winter in my book. One, though, is the chance to see a slightly different mix of birdlife in the garden. Only when the colder weather hits do we see Goldfinches dropping in to take their…
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