Susan
We didn¡¯t manage to get to Sidmouth, but next year perhaps . . .
I remember being stationed at RAF Finningley (82-85, when I was an instructor for navigators on the Jet Provost Mk 5, the ¡°JP Low Level Squadron¡±) when we had the Queen¡¯s 50th Jubillee Air Day. ?They had a fourship of Vulcans doing a simulated scramble from the end of the runway which had an operational readiness pan (ORP). ?It was very loud and ?big, but I hated the idea of flying the Vulcan (dreadful job) so I dismissed it rather. ?RAF Finningley closed years ago but Doncaster Airport there moved from Robin Hood Airport near the racecourse, presumably when it was sold for development.
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Hello there, Jude! ?Hubby Harvey was toying with the idea of a new iPad and we even went so far as to order one from John Lewis, with standard delivery within five days. ?Five days later, still no sign, (and boy do I hate that DPD app!) so we cancelled the order. If we decide on a purchase later on, we shall go to the shop and do the biz there. I love the John Lewis shop. ?
Other than that, we did go to the Sidmouth Air Show, treating ourselves to two nights in a hotel - wow!! ?It was a very nice little hotel and we gorged on a full English breakfast both mornings! ?The air show was small but fun and Harvey took lots of nice piccies of the amazing Wildcat helicopter, the crazy Pitts Special, the two Spitfires (aaww!) and, of course, the reason most people were there, the Red Arrows. I still miss the presence of the Avro Vulcan, XH558. ?I have no plans to go to Doncaster for a fast tax in iti, though I¡¯d love to hear that ¡°howl¡± in real life! ?On our way down - we went by car, even though it¡¯s only a bus ride away - we stopped off at a Waitrose to get sandwiches for the evening, as we¡¯d only booked bed and breakfast at the hotel, and I found my favourite Bottle Green Apple and Plum Cordial, MIA locally for months, so a definite plus.
Well, that¡¯s our adventures and now we are waiting for our groceries delivery from Sainsbury¡¯s; the excitement never ends!
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Susan
You are all extremely quiet. Are you all beavering away from home offices? We're retired people and we know how boring that can be - so can't imagine how it must be for people who are used to the cameraderie of the office water fountain.
I sat in front of my computer for what was supposed to be an instructive online chat about Zoom two days ago - only to discover some faceless bloke was just showing slides and they had turned off mike and vision for 150 people who attended the online event.?
Yes we know you ?need decent internet connection but if they'd said was slides only I wouldn't have bothered frankly. So there was an hour of my time I'll never get back :-)
Yesterday I edited a photo in Afffinity photo and when I did save to desktop it saved it as a .afphoto file !@#$^&!! Whats that when its at home I said to myself. Discovered one has to go to the "Export" function to get a .tiff.jpeg, etc.
So I can understand why someone might say ?of it "its not Photoshop" when even that is not very intuitive. I obviously need to spend more time learning the program ?:-)?
The iPad is serving a purpose to give mdy brain something to do while we are all still minding our Ps and Qs in Covid restrictions down here... but really .... it is just an expensive toy :-) ?I tried laying out something in Pages on the iPad Pro and found it so frustrating I got out of bed and wandered round to my Mac and airdropped it and got on with it. Total given up on the idea of doing anything serious with Pages on the iPad now. ?I'm not saying I regret the purchase, but in a way its just confirmed my all time opinion of it. ?First world problems :-)?
Jude
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