The iPhone has some excellent location and map technology incorporating Google maps. But now that we live and explore a region where mobile signal is next to nothing, I have been searching other mapping options. I don’t have any urge to get a sat-nav and for my limited UK use, and a week or two [...]
Sleep and I do not have the most stable of relationships. In an attempt to understand more about how I sleep, and how evening routines affect my me, I have been looking at ways to record and monitor my sleep patterns. Insomnia frequently lurks nearby and rarely do I find a night’s sleep properly restful. [...]
There’s something very satisfying about a good pair of walking boots. So when I had the chance to test-drive a pair of Salomon hiking boots, I couldn’t resist. A brief disclaimer: I was supplied with a pair of boots and socks to test in return for an honest, impartial review. I’m a traditionalist when it [...]
AbeBooks have quite a unique item listed for sale right now: A first edition paperback of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, plus Douglas Adams’ typewriter. [The typewriter] bears an anti-apartheid sticker on one side of the object and is boldly signed across the front casing by Adams in his unmistakeable hand. It comes housed [...]
Just in time to coincide with our resolve to adhere to a more controlled and considered eating regime, I got an email today from Thorntons (yes, the chocolate people) to tell me they are knocking 20% off pretty much everything between now and 4pm on Friday June 20th. It was, of course, deliberate timing – [...]
