For much of the current winter, I’ve been beavering away giving our website a bit of a facelift. [Ed: Now that was interesting, spellchecker doesn’t understand beavering and neither, to my surprise, does Chamber’s 20th century dictionary. Hmm.] Although it…
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Replacement New Toy
Recently I returned a new toy, specifically a Canon EOS 7D camera body + Canon L series 70-300mm lens, to Warehouse Express because I wasn’t entirely happy with the camera’s performance compared to my existing EOS 40D. I was beyond…
Cameras by Microsoft?
Yesterday, in some unexpected intermittent sunshine, we decided to go and visit a new dragonfly location relatively close to home, Flitton Moor in Bedfordshire. It doesn’t look much like a moor but what the hell, that’s its name. There was…
New Toy Returned
Before we went to France for spring, I had managed to convince myself that I really would like a new camera, the Canon EOS 7D. It’s main appealing advantages over my current Canon EOS 40D were: 18 Megapixels (as opposed…
Tagged with: photography
WordPress Conundrum
Some time ago I used WordPress to set up a website for our local U3A group. The site doesn’t do anything very complex, basically advertises the group’s existence and activities, and stores a few PDF documents such as Membership Forms,…
GPS Conundrum
We have two Garmins. Garmin A is a basic walker’s device called an “eTrex h” (the “h” is for high sensitivity). Garmin B is a nüvi something (and what’s that umlaut all about?) for our cars. A friend of mine…
Testing Technology
We’ve just returned from a walk in the company of our U3A friends. These walks are fortnightly gentle saunters, ~5m/8kms, through some very pleasant countryside and, this spring, in some very pleasant weather. We don’t usually know exactly how long…
Tagged with: GPS
Colourful Easter
[Egg-citing Easter was a bit too obvious, even for me, but I thought I should note the possibility.] First of all, my dear ol’ mum bought me a lovely Thornton’s dark chocolate Easter Egg. How much of a big kid…
The New Season Begins
For Odonata, a.k.a. Dragonflies and Damselflies, that is. It has been a long winter for a relatively new addict for many reasons, not the least of which, of course, were my surgical experiences caused by ridding myself of a freshly…
Tagged with: butterflies, cancer, cancer awareness, damselflies, dragonflies, nature, prostatectomy, wildlife
Walking on Water
Now that I seem to be well on the road to recovery from my prostatectomy (fingers still firmly crossed), I appear to have developed a new and little known condition. In fact, this may be completely new to medical science.…
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