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Day 04 – Bury St Edmunds
Well today is Saturday and it is our fist day without definite accommodation for the night, I am hoping for a cancelation and I have arranged to be able to leave the car in the car park for the morning, time will tell if we are lucky, but maybe the title gives the answer away. We have booked in to do the tour of the cathedral, our plans are changed when our 10:45 tour turns into a 12:00 tour. It turns out to be friends day at the cathedral and there are lots of things going on, a special concert by a string section, catered lunch for invited guests and…
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Day 03 – Ely
Well our time in London is over and so it is off into the country side we drive. After a slight hassle getting our hire car we leave the busy city, drive past lords cricket ground and out along the motorway to the north. First stop is Cambridge, for a look at the many colleges. The sun is out as we make our way from the car park to the small town market, I get a chance to buy and try my first local cox apple. It has been the best apple season here for many years and although a little flowery the apple does taste delicious. We have a…
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Day 02 – London
Sunshine greats us after a good night, another great escape from jet lag. Breakfast is taken in the refurbished dinning area, and the hash browns, eggs and beans are a welcome start. Today is a day to explore the centre of London so it is a nice stroll through Hyde park and down monument avenue to Buckingham palace, we arrive just in time for the changing of the guards, So along with thousands of other tourists we take in the pomp and ceremony of the occasion. After the guards have changed we take a stroll down the Mall to Trafalgar Square. The square is busy with tourists taking in the…
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Day 01 – London
Well kick off day one and it is an early start at 5:10 am touch down in Heathrow, day finds us touching down in the dark on a drizzly and cold morning, only 7 deg for a starter. After picking up our bags and breezing through customs, easy when you are the first international flight to land, it is of for a tube ride to Marble arch. 3 station changes later we arrive and it is a short walk to the hotel. After dropping off the bags it is off for a quick explore to get some grocery supplies and a few sandwiches for lunch. With the day improving and…
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One more night
Well only one more night to go till grand tour two kicks off. I will be bloging to my home site, http://Ely.mine.nu and the intension is to only use my iPad or phone. Will be interesting to see if my daily journal is as easy to do as last years trip.
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iPad Camera Connection Kit
Today I have been playing around with the iPad camera connection kit to see how it would work with photos and movies. After seeing quite a bit on the Internet I wanted to find out exactly what was true and so I set to work to find out. First can you access a USB drive with the camera kit, answer yes. You have to do 2 things to get this to work. First format the USB key as fat.Second place a single folder DCIM on the drive, then all you need to do is place your photos in this folder and when you plug it into the iPad it will…
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iPad 2 cover
One of the dilemmas once you have bought your new flash iPad is which cover should you buy to protect it? Apple have come out with a new magnetic cover which turns the iPad on and off when you open it, but like a lot of people I had some concerns, yes it does a job of protecting the screen but then nice shinny back was open to damage. I therefore wanted something more protective and it was at this point that I found the STM skinny iPad cover, this cover is really brilliant, it has a hard plastic cover that the iPad clips into to protect the back as…
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Welcome to the dark side
Yes the tussle between Microsoft and Apple has been blurred even further with the buying of my iPad 2.After years of resisting I have been persuaded to shell out some cash,which in some part is due to Microsofts lack of competing products. Even Android has more interesting offerings in this market space which really shows how Microsoft has basically given up to date. The main deciding factor in the end was the overwhelming amount of apps Apple has been able to accumulate, there really does seem to be an “App for that” and after spending my first week with my new iPad 2 I have to say I am very…
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Froggy Visitor
Had a visit from a southern banjo frog. This is the second one that I have seen this year, nice to see they are about.
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Front Fence
Current ongoing project is my front fence, I have decided that a wooden picket fence would be a worthy addition so construction started early April. fence has been going well and is close to completion although changes in the design has seen an under estimation of pickets so work has currently stopped while new pickets are bought and then painted. Considering the early winter temperatures are not really conducive to painting things may take a little longer than first though. Below is a link on the progress so far. Fence is 17 meters long and there is about 160 pickets.