Thinking Ahead

Okay so by ahead I only mean this coming week but that's quite an achievement for me these days. That doesn't mean that I don't plan.  I do.  Sort of.  But this time I've done no planning apart from booking my flights. The rest is all being planned for me.

I'm going to Sydney to stay with a close friend of over 50 years who lives in Canada but who has a daughter living in Sydney.   The last time we were all together was when we all holidayed in Italy in 2012.  Her daughter has been on at me for years because we meet in Europe or here in New Zealand but I've never been to visit her in Sydney which is less than 4 hours away across the Tasman from New Zealand!

It is more years than I can remember since I have been away for more than a day or so without my laptop: especially if there were photos to be downloaded and blogs to be written.  Well the next eight days will be different.  I leave here at crack of dawn tomorrow morning.  Me, my iPad and my iPhone and no Macbook!  I have, however, decided that by the time I get to Sydney I will have learned more about using my iPad.  I know that at the moment I do not realise its full potential.  I've even downloaded the Apple manual for it.  My intention is to carry on blogging as if I was doing so on the laptop.  I suddenly decided this because of a post by Carol in Cairns.  Thank you Carol for that and for the subsequent information.

Why the photo below?  Simply because I wanted to see if I could do this post with a photo from the iPad.

A rather large hearse with a 1929 Austin 7 tucked in behind.

Addendum:

Well it didn't all go completely to plan.  The picture downsized itself and you can't take photos off the iPad using Blogger in Safari on the iPad which is rather odd.  However I'm sure I'll overcome these difficulties and carry on blogging.

Apple Harvest

Katherine's family is an Apple family!  It's also a family of lots of different and diverse conversations going on constantly.  There is no television.  There are those who say, or at least think, that computers are anti-social.  I would suggest a stay chez Katherine.  Every conversation is likely to involve learning and every bout of learning will involve reaching for an iPhone or an iPad or a MacBook for the purpose of finding information or solving a quiz or learning a language or......the list is endless.  I feel so very at home.

An Apple Called Eve

MacBook Pro

Some while ago I bought an Apple MacBook Pro.  I was converted to Apple.  There are disadvantages to owning an Apple but there are also many (and overwhelming) advantages if you can afford one.    Anyway my laptop was sitting on the table this evening when Jayne commented to Coleen about Samantha (my Notebook) who seemed to have been deserted for the new machine.  Unfortunately that's quite true.  So Jayne asked the name of the addition to the family.  I replied that she didn't have a name as yet (6 months or so down the line).  Given that it's an Apple, Jayne immediately came up with the name Eve.  It's not a name I would have chosen for the laptop.  It's not a name that evokes  any feelings in me.  But I can't keep on calling it nothing for ever.  It's not in my nature.   So Eve it is.

Monday

Sometimes there just aren't witty or interesting headings one can use. Today is one of those days.

CJ pointed out in his comment of "What's in a Name" that my Laptop too has a name. I called it Palin because it spends it's time roaming and telling people about far away places. Henry (my PC in Lewis) on the other hand is, as the name implies, a reliable stay at home type.

On the assumption that the cable isn't laid and the phone connected today (might fly pigs - rearrange into a well known phrase or saying) I shall probably not be blogging for a few days because I have a two-day Croquet tournament tomorrow and Wednesday. The start is 0830 and apart from being tired by the end of play everywhere will probably be closed.

So normal service will be resumed shortly.