What are you all up to
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Phone and Pad tech is marvellous nowadays Corners, thank goodness.
We have a mix of hard and carpet floors, so really do like something with a spin brush and good suction for the carpets. Wary that cordless won’t be enough to cope with carpets.
Have sorted out issue with Council, 1-0 to residents, so that’s a plus. Apparently priority app for Peter Kay tickets crashed this morning, so will try again later, thought this might be the case. No response from Police yet, but that’s par for the course as well…..
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I'm on my second Dyson now, its the ball type, I love it. We have carpets thick ones in all but the kitchen and bathroom. We live in a bungalow so no stairs to have to carry it up. I can do all the rooms with ease but it does take a bit to get used to. It's over 6 years old and still going strong.
Today we went to a show of the Andalusia horses in Jerez. Very good, the grounds and museum are all part of the ticket price so very good VFM in Spain over 60s get a good discount.
Weather still good, off to cowboy town of El Rocio tomorrow for the weekend.
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I've just done the same thing Corners. Just bought an iPhone 11 to replace my ageing 6S Plus. Although it's now 3 years since it was introduced, at under £500 and with most of the bells and whistles the 13 has got it seemed a bargain I couldn't miss. Obviously others think the same because I had trouble sourcing one. Although it took me two attempts (because a software upgrade taking place at the same time messed up the transfer), the transfer of data, Apps and the like, eventually took about 20 minutes which is great considering I have nearly 6000 photos stored on the Cloud. What did test me was that, for reasons I don't understand, I lost all my favourite faces on my Apple watch but I managed to find a back-up from yonks ago and eventually restored that back as well. I pay 79p a month for my iCloud storage - well worth it, in my opinion.
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OUCH !!
I was due to go out to do a little food shopping and get Birthday cards for Aged Sister [92] and good friends hubby [78] but with all this chit-chat about Dysons, Sharks, Iphones etc etc I think I will go back to bed and cuddle my wallet & chequebook etc until the terrors have worn off
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Sorry ABM OH has just changed his phone to iPhone 11 on Wednesday got a good deal off Orange our provider as a renewed model previous owner had returned it within 3 weeks and no marks etc on it R&R OH had fun with transfer over from old to the new one especially the banks but all done and now I have his old iPhone 8 with what I use it for not much to transfer thankfully although it fits my phone case camera is slightly different place on the case good job I do not use that much prefer normal cameras.
We have got tiled floors except for the bedroom which is laminate flooring so a few rugs have got a Vax corded for doing anything that needs a heavy vac but most days a Bosch lightweight upright rechargeable and that copes with the tiled floors plus a smaller vac we got from Aldi we use for the caravan and sometimes cleaning inside of the cars which reminds me they need doing again OH not keen on doing his.
Did some gardening yesterday and cleared a raised bed of plants that have gone pass saving and will finish it off today and some areas to clear up before weather changes from Monday onwards as it looks like rain for 10 days but ground needs it.
Neighbour across two fields lit a bonfire last night and still going today and still cutting stuff down and we are not allowed bonfires but he is on the local village Council so will say no more heyho life in the French countryside and also the hunt are about plus the local military camp Caylus are having a shooting practice so much for a holiday today of Armistice Day.
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Weather still good, off to cowboy town of El Rocio tomorrow for the weekend
We loved El Rocio when we were last there TG. Like a set out of a western film. Went there to get to Doñana national park. Are you staying at the campsite?
Just finished arm and hand physio. Really excellent service. 3x a week sometimes, mostly twice.
Coffee calls.
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For the use we make of mobiles, we cannot justify spending on new phones, we inherit our children's old ones when they upgrade. At the moment I have an i phone 5, and OH has a 4SE.........whatever that means.
They work as phones, and for internet browsing, e mail etc. etc., and have reasonable cameras. OH has just given up PAYG and gone to a modest monthly contract as the PAYG was becoming very pricey to use, so she can now use internet on her phone.
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We both have Android phones. Mine is about three and half years old Margaret's a bit newer. I don't think we have any immediate plans to replace? One reason in the past that has caused us to change phones more frequently has been due to lack of memory but since the introduction of 128MB phones we seem to have plenty of spare capacity. Because I still use a digital camera I tend not to use the phone so much for photographs. We both have monthly plans which include calls,texts and data, neither particularly expensive. I could probably lower the data allowance as I rarely use a quarter of my allowance. I am still amazed at how much you can use a smartphone for, isn't technology wonderful!
David
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Earlier in the year I thought I would get out my camera (top of the range Sony a few years ago). I found the charger, and the manual and went to try it out. But it felt so awkward to have to hold it up to my face to see what I was capturing. The screen was small compared to my phone. And it only took photos - I couldn't send them to anyone, nor would it fit in my handbag.So I put it back in the cupboard with the other old technology.
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I love the smart phone technology and it reminds me of my Dad who said 60 years ago it was on the way!! I wish he could see it now, he had to do calculations by hand to improve the communications technology at the time!
OH and I sometimes attempt to work out what "contracts" might be ok for us but we seem to manage ok with giffgaff PYG at £10 a go. My last phone was secondhand and didn't have enough memory so I've got a new Samsung, not too expensive, one thing I don't do is pay too much for ever changing technology.
Hope ABM can cope with all this info!
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A very "grey" day here, but not too cold.
In preparation for the Craft Fair we are going to on Sunday, we have been to the bank for some change, and now all that is to be done is pack everything up into boxes and get organised with paper, tape, pens, price tickets etc.
I have spent the afternoon in my "workshop" making/finishing a few last minute items, and tomorrow DD is coming up to assist OH with packing and checking we have all we need with us.
It has certainly kept us busy recently, and DD has even made a Facebook page for me. Someone has already reserved an item.
Hopefully we will sell enough to cover the costs of going to this event!
I also have a new invitation to another venue early in December at a school in the West End of Glasgow, so depending on how much "stock" we have left, we may be going there too.
Selling some stuff would be a nice little jsupplement to my pension, and, according to OH, a welcome clearance of some cupboards!
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Reading about the new phones etc on here, I think our generation has coped/accepted change more than most. I was telling my grandchildren that to photocopy in my early days at work we used a Gestetna machine, inked it then turned the handle each time to get a copy. To use a calculator a handle was pulled. Later at work the computer was to be found in the basement, one big huge machine. Once, when very young, I said to my Aunt, ‘ wouldn’t it be great if when on the phone we could also actually see the person we were talking to’, she replied, ‘ well that will never happen my love’. Now my grandchildren FaceTime each other most evenings.
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I remember buying my first computer, a Sincliar ZX81, back in 1980/81. It came with 1kb (yes one kilobyte) of memory and being the nerd I was then (and suppose still am) I bought a 16Kb rampack. I have it somewhere in the loft. Then a BBC model B a few years later.
Also when I first started teaching it was a case of 'don't use your calculators - you won't always have one with you at all times'
That advice worked out well didn't it!
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I can understand the convenience of using a phone as camera and they take pretty good ones as well. My problem is the format of phone photos. I keep to a camera for photographs because they are easier to manipulate and edit for my website. I appreciate that is a problem that most don't have!
David
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Oh, Goldie, don't start me going on Cameras
!! As I sit here at the desk-tops keyboard if i glance down and left I can see the camera bag c/w the two Canon S.L.R.s and four lenses that have accompanied me for a few years now { verdammed covid lock downs 
} BUT if I look up and right on top of the bookcase holding the first 43 A4 files of 35 mil slides I can just see a couple of Brass and Mahogany cameras that my late father used before they conscripted him in the late 1930s. I swapped two of them plus the lenses in part exchange for the 400 mil Canon Telephoto lens that I use so often it has caused neck ache, back ache and a couple of bruises on my right hip !! So very different to the Zenith E that I bought out of pocket money back in the late 1950's.# Oh the times they are a-changing # ( non-stop
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A successful day.
1. Contacted a plumber yesterday, he came round at 9:00 this morning to look at the job, and by 11:30 the job was completed! Just waiting for the bill now!! The job was not difficult, and I'm sure it is one Kjell could do with his eyes shut, but not for me, especially without the proper tools.
2. When we got home there was a letter from the Dermatology Dept, dated 6th Sept, giving me the news that the biopsy was clear but I needed to go in for a check up, but not had any notification of when that was to be. After 2 days of trying to get through to our hospital booking dept I finally made contact early this morning, and now have an appointment for 10:00 tomorrow!!?
3. Was able to get the car cleaned before lunchtime.1 -
Corners ~~ about the " dont use your calculators " comment, when l started at Tech College I had a Scientific Calculator -- the sort that could, eventually, work out the square root of any number you needed to know BUT alas Mr McMaster the Maths wizz could nearly always beat us to the answer using his Guessing Stick and he didn't need to check the batteries !!
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A Zenith E! yes I had one of those as well, My first real camera. M42 screw thread and I remember the shutter release turned as you pressed it leaving a lovely marked on your finger.
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Oh - lots of happy memories about technology are coming to the fore
I also bought a Zenith E as a teenager and spent ages in the loft developing film and printing it off using noxious chemicals. Took forever and was never satisfactory. How many thousands of photos can I now store on a 30Gb data card?????In 1970 - when I was at the Royal Naval Engineering College at Manadon in Plymouth, we used to run tests on a Rover gas turbine engine (used as a fire pump!) The data was sent down a phone line to Birmingham University who had one of the few computers in the country big enough to handle the data - and we got the results back a week later. Suppose it could be done by a phone App now.
Moving on a bit to when I was in the Police - I was part of a team in Humberside - in the late 70's / early 80's - developing a computerised crime management system (the pre-cursor to the PNC). We used a 'state of the art' computer - an Apricot with a floppy disc (when that was a new innovation) and a massive 64k of memory
The programming language was BASIC - if anyone remembers that.When I look back to those beginnings, I'm amazed at how fast and far technology has taken us.
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You're right about the speed of technology. When I bought my first computer, I asked for advice from a client of mine who produced specialist CGI equipment for the film industry.
He described technology as a bullet train at full speed. You have to get on at some point, but by the time you sit down what you have bought is already out of date.
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My OH says just the same David. He is VERY particular about photographs and their quality, being a semi professional photographer. He says the phone is ok for snaps but most are not good for a quality picture. He needs to download his pictures to the desktop and view on a 27” screen. A lot are discarded but as a member of the local Photography Club many are used for competitions. So the amount of photos we have must run into thousands I reckon, all stored on hard disk drive. Sadly a phone camera isn’t good enough here, whatever make it is!! I always use my phone or iPad, I find the pictures look fine to me. My Dad wouldn’t believe how technology has changed, he thought he was ahead of the curve with his first ‘mobile phone’ -’ about the size of a housebrick.
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Our first was the spectrum, initially with 16K then upgraded to 48K. A few years later, with the kids at school using them, we invested in an Archimedes, with I think a massive 1MB of ram and a 20MB hard disk. Those early machines were great using Basic, so it was easy to mess about creating simple programmes. Contrast that with the machine we bought recently 8GB of RAM and a terabyte of solid state storage, with the only moving part being the on button.😀 The darn thing is just too clever by half, it will even talk back to you.😂
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Yes same here on developing those B&W films although being a old terrace house it had a coal cellar (with a grate onto the street) and I used that. I also remember buying Ilford FP4 in bulk, was it a 30m or 30ft roll and using reusing reusable cassettes and a special machine thing that allowed me to put the bulk roll into them. Names like Kodak Tri-X bring back so many memories. As as you say 36 exp on one roll, and once I ventured into slides having to wait while they came back in the post!
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Yes! and in those days the ESC button actually did something! My first program was:
10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
I thought it is was absolutely brilliant that it worked. I remember spending a happy afternoon with fellow nerds writing a program that given the a, b, c of a quadratic equation would give the solutions. We thought we had created the best program EVER.
Fortnight players today don't know what they're missing.
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How to spell fortnight for starters. I too remember FP4 & Tri X. With the price of film, paper and chemicals, we weren't as "shutter happy" then either.
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So far today is going reasonably well. Council finally picked our bins up, and…..🥳🤩🤩🥳 success in getting two Peter Kay tickets. All we have to do now is hope both he and we can survive until July ‘24🤣🤣🤣
Hospital visiting for me this afternoon, hey ho, that’s as thrilling as it gets at the moment. I have got OH on a mission though, I want a new (to me) small, nippy, economic car. Preferably, a Mini. That’ll keep him entertained for a while………
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