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  • Simple pleasures

    I’m reading Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, there’s a bottle of Peroni by my side, and Waldeck’s Ballroom Stories is blasting out the speakers. Perfect!

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  • BlogPad Pro for the iPad

    I’ve installed BlogPad Pro (£2.99 in the UK) on my iPad. It’s an app for maintaining a WordPress blog, and this is a first attempt at a post. It’s going to contain a bit of over-the-top formatting!

    Type  Number
    Fruit  5
    Vegetables  4
    Total  9

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    I’ve inserted this thumbnail image – the text is behaving, which is  good! Sometimes editing the image settings doesn’t work, but having another go seems to work ok.

    First impressions!

    1. Of course ALL editing on the iPad is a pain compared to a proper keyboard! I don’t like that I can’t stretch the screen when editing markup or html in order to increase the size of the text. The text is just too small.
    2. You can insert images but not galleries, which is a problem for me.
    3. I’ve had some fast responses to emails to the developers. A suggested reinstall fixed a problem. Another email pointed out how to access the WordPress dashboard to deal with the galleries issue.
    4. I managed to overwrite a second post on this subject with (null), which is a little concerning. I’ll keep an eye on it.
    5. Overall it’s a very nice app and I’m hoping to use it to do more blogging from the iPad.
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  • Thumbprint – Friedrich Glauser

    Friedrich Glauser’s Thumbprint is a curiosity! I was well into the book before I realised it was written in 1936. It’s a detective story, set in Switzerland, and written in a rather dated way. I got rather lost with the foreign names and the general oddnesss, but otherwise it’s a very easy 200 page read. The Austrian author lived a short and rather tragic life, spending much of his life in asylums and prison.

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  • Windsor & Eton

    I’m not too keen on Windsor! In the summer, the tourists flood in, and the place should be avoided. Today, the weather deteriorated rapidly, and much of my visit was spent in Esquires Coffee House and The Carpenter’s Arms, which are handily opposite each other! Windsor is not particularly attractive, hence the limited number of images. However, three hours on the train to get there and return meant I could progress with reading my Swiss, crime procedural.

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  • Canada – Richard Ford

    Richard Ford’s Canada is a lengthy, 600 page novel about a 15 year old boy trying to deal with his disintegrating family. Told by the boy, it’s a compassionate and well-written story. Not a lot happens and I was ready to get to the end, but it’s a fine book and is recommended. I will be looking out for more books by the author.

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  • Going to the movies just got cheaper

    Curzon

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  • Hamble, near Southampton

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  • Thames Path, Victoria to Canary Wharf

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  • Coloured buildings, London

    IMGP3973[1]I came across these office buildings whilst walking from Kings Cross to Waterloo. Along the way I browsed in Judd Books and Skoob Books where I picked up three novels.
    In Covent Garden, people were sat outside eating, in January!

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  • National Portrait Gallery, London

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