BeenThere-DoneThat Blog

A blog about life and travel in Great Britain

Browsing Posts published in February, 2010

2010 – Preparations start.

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It sort of sneaked up on me. I was checking the batteries for one of my cameras and found them to be mostly devoid of any significant charge so I made sure that were fully discharged and then recharged them. Then we bought a cheap inkjet printer on ebay so that when we are staying [...]

First ya see it then ya don’t

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Yesterday the Blog started as normal and then, sometime later, I changed the look of it completely and for the better I hope. But then I realised that there were no smilies showing on the Comments Form. Whoops! So I tried a different set of smilies but they presented their own problems and I decided [...]

Walking in circles

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Stonehenge is perhaps the most famous stone circle in the world and there are other significant stone circles in this country such as Avebury, Arbor Low and the Rollright Stones but there are many others scattered around the countryside that are just as old but relatively rather insignificant. When we were last in North Wales [...]

Gobbledygook!

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I have recently added a translation option to the Blog although, having seen the results of internet translators when translating foreign languages to English, the results are probably amusing at best and gobbledygook (unintelligable) at worst but, possibly, better than nothing. This sample translation of Japanese to English gives an example of what the results [...]

Zoom and Bloom

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We’re now into February and are glad to see the back of another winter month (January). One small step towards Spring. We’ve had three consecutive sunny, but cold, days which brings thoughts of travelling to the fore and so we think about zooming around the country once again this year. But this means that, first, [...]