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Winning, Nov 2024 Update The improvements: Smartphones are smarter; when switched off, by voice I can tell it to call a particular person or to open a new email; switch itself on by fingerprint or facial recognition (very quick); more useful search results (BARD/Chat GPT); dictate emails, documents, diary details...

Classical Music – Sept 20 Yes we did have some popular piano music, some Liszt and some Chopin plus a brief session of Scott Joplin. Next time the theme is “Does this count as c;assical music? To make it easier, people can send me an email with a hyperlink to...

CM, Notes from 16 Aug exploration – Beethoven  Everyone brought a CD from Beethoven’s work, which was probably guaranteed to introduce us to some new works. For me this was Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No.32, his last. Ithink I have...

9 August 2024, Today’s Notes   9 Aug, Ideas we discussed Sow now  – Cupidon dwarf French Beans,   – Xmas potatoes – Possibly Spinach – Possibly Winter leeks What vegetable for overwintering Onion sets Garlic Shallots Chard Aguadulce Broad Beans Spinach Selected brassicas Quadgrow Watering System, Cliff has already...

Is it damson or blackcurrant jam? Raspberry or strawberry? Yellow Plum or Rhubarb? With caffeine or is it decaf? I am actually using the DYMO label printer to do my own labels for my seed trays e.g, beetroot, spinach, Cha Cha squash and lots more. I produce the label, suing...

What a wonderful and challenging experience When I started the Classical Music group I realised that I didn’t know enough. One of our group is a clarinetist so as a courtesy I looked into that. Then I started thinking about violinists and this has been, and still is, a real...

At last the beans are thriving and the tomatoes  look good. All the spare flowers are also making the allotment look good. So now we start next year.  We have ordered the overwintering onions and shallots. We have been given some local heritage strawberries. Also we are trailing “Strulch” for...

It’s amazing, it’s wonderful. At last all the work we have putin is worthwhile. OK, the broad beans have been coming for some time. Now we also have th dwarf french beans, the runner beans and the butter beans all looking goo. Similarly the Charlotte potatoes are looking though the...

in my battle, “winning against AMD” A merest whim of an idea, could it become a sentence, or even a paragraph let alone a possibility of a new chapter in my battle with AMD. I have noticed that as I can’t read a word then I can’t spell it so...

It started with the word “processional”. Yes I remembered The Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco, The Triumphal March from Aida and then there was the March of Torreadores from Carmen. Of course, I must not forget Vidor’s Toccata. But finally I remembered the word Tannhauser, That was it. Wagner wasn’t it...