Silly Brand Names – #Ringbolt Wine
The vineyard of Margaret River settled on the brand name of ‘Ring Bolt’ after deciding this was more acceptable to the market than ‘Knob Spanner’ or ‘Nipple Flange’.
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Nice Day for a Funeral
Motorhome Wifi – Repurposing a TV Antenna
Pictured is one half of a Grade Status 530 TV and FM antenna, it’s guts removed and replaced with an Engenius EOC-2610 wireless access point. The motorhome already had the TV antenna fitted, and we don’t watch TV, so it was an ideal place to fit wifi externally to the vehicle.
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Stourhead – Shame About The Weather, But Lovely As Ever
Just spending a couple of days in the motorhome, getting used to how things work and how best to organise things. I feel like I’m setting up home all over gain, going to the home stores to choose bedding and bog brushes. Well, actually not bog brushes, but it feels like it.
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Please, Make Them Stop Already
Christ, ’tis the season to be cringing in expectation of worse to come. Can you believe this thing? A black Christmas tree with polystyrene snow. I’m so glad my Christmas will be alternative this year!
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Poole has Some Attractive Bits
Poole harbour was somewhat more attractive than the rest of the town. The high street is a truly depressing place, and the Dolphin Shopping Centre doesn’t really help. Bland, dreary and typically British. Why is it this country lacks style?
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We Now Own a Motorhome!
So here it is (an Adria Izola 697SL). Collected from Poole on Wednesday, we stayed the night near Wimbourne Minster so that we could test out all the facilities, and get help from the dealer the following day if necessary. Overall the van was fine, a slight lack of attention to detail on the part of the dealer, but they… Read more »
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Poole Twinned with Colditz?
I’m not sure this is the advert for Poole that the town council would have in mind. The most prominent town name sign at the railway station, backed by CCTV and anti-climb spikes. They are no doubt very apply for visitors to the town, as long as they can keep an eye on you.
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iCloud not Synchronising Pages, Numbers or Keynote?
My first try at using iCloud to sync documents between my iPad and iPhone failed. I had created a spreadsheet on the iPad that I wanted to reference on the iPhone whilst out shopping, and when I cranked up Numbers for a look, it wasn’t present. None of the iPad documents were showing for Numbers, although a test Pages document… Read more »
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Loving Camera+ on the iPhone
It’s not often that you get genuine joy out of using an app on the iPhone/iPad, but Camera+ is one of them. I needed something to reinvigorate my interest in photography, and Camera+ is really helping with that. Not only is a competent camera, the filters and effects provided are simple to use and produce some great results. I’m particularly… Read more »
