Category: Blogging
Samsung Note 2 Android 4.3 upgrade issues.
Hi, my name is Hac, and I’m a samsung Note 2 addict. At least I was. I loved so many things about it. I adored the connective typing, the predictive text, the way that I only had to send a phrase a couple of times and it learnt it. I used to be able to…
Saturday Snippets 4 January 2014
{decluttering} the living room. I’ve managed to shift out nearly two sacks worth of stuff for charity, a (small) bin liner of rubbish and a box for recycling. With the tree going down and a rearrangement so that the art desk is in a corner, the room looks much much bigger than it did. More…
Saturday Snippets 28 December 2013
{discovering} previously unknown levels of self restraint! when I walked away from a twitter discussion about home education and child abuse and then stayed away for several hours. {eating} fridge bottom feast, where the fridge was also the reduced section of the coop fridge. Sherry trifle reduced to 75p! {watching} Planet 51. Surprisingly good animation…
Saturday snippets 21 December 2013
{Musing} on Solstice, nature, connections and society. {Reading} I can’t decide! I finished Conquest and really enjoyed it, can’t decide whether to go for more SF (have got Ghost Brigades on Kindle) or start on the 642 pages of historical fiction that landed today. Decisions, decisions. Suggestions welcome. (Wish I’d remembered to lay my hands…
Food bank debate – political point scoring and nothing changes.
Yesterday MPs met in the house of commons to debate foodbanks, following a petition raised by Ms Jack Monroe. Or did they? Let’s read the actual motion. That this House notes that the number of people using foodbanks provided by the Trussell Trust alone has increased from 41,000 in 2010 to more than 500,000 since…
Saturday snippets 14 December 2013
{Reading} Starborn. The final book in the Flaxfield quartet. A little sad at how it Finished. {Watching} The Mask. Suitably silly and funny for #familyfilmnight. Thanks to talktalk for our Sky Movies boost for review. Now that we’ve finally figured out how it works we’re very happy with it. {Eating} pizza. Yes, on Saturday. Presumably…