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Exeter Quayside and Exe Bridges, 2014-11-09
My parents were visiting, and we had a walk around Exe Bridges and the Quayside. I took a few photos. There’s some great street art around Exe Bridges. It’s been re-done since these were taken, with some more amazingly good work. We found a cute little gull, too. A car with nicely subtle Hello Kitty […]
[Read More...]Devon County Show 2015
The Devon County Show is an annual event in Devon, where, for three days, a set of fields at Westpoint, near Exeter, become a showground and shopping area the size of a fairly impressive town centre. In theory, it’s an agricultural show, but there’s a lot more. There are tractors and traction engines, shops from […]
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A Dead iPad Pro
The Friday before last had a sad ending. I took my iPad out of my bag, and tried to switch it on. It was dead. I kind of gave that away in the title, didn’t I? It’s quite new – the 11″ iPad Pro, only around 2 months old. I tried powering off, but it […]
[Read More...]Coffee
We got a bean to cup machine. Before that, we had (and still have) a Nespresso, but it’s relatively expensive to run, and disposing of the pods is a bit of a pain. We’ve wanted to get a bean to cup machine for quite a while, but when one came up at a much better […]
[Read More...]Leaving Bear and Using Drafts 5
It’s not long since I posted about trying out Bear for writing. Now I’ve ditched it again. Mostly, though, the problem wasn’t Bear as such, just a better alternative for me came along. An updated version of an app I’ve been using for years – Drafts. Drafts 4 was a handy little app for capturing […]
[Read More...]Trying Polarr
I’ve tried a few photo apps for iOS. Quite a few. None have quite measured up for one reason or another, but Polarr is looking pretty close. Most of the time, I’m ok with the editing tools in the standard Photos app. It’s quite capable, on macOS. On iOS, though, it lacks quite a few […]
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