Edd The Garden And Me

On Sunday Mother's Day Edd came over with large bunch of flowers for Genny which was very nice, and to help me in the garden.

The garden has been needing a facelift for sometime and it was decided to replace the raised borders timber work with new decking, this turned out to be a much bigger job than we first thought, the Timber was rotten and had to virtually replace everything, and though initially it was thought we might get away with facing what was already there in the end it all had to come out, the job actually took more than just yesterday Edward came over a fortnight ago and spent the whole day ripping out and replacing the woodwork.
Yesterday was the final finishing touches which took the best part of four to five hours but now its complete looks very good indeed. I think Ed said there was one board and the garden gate to be repaired so that's pretty good, then it's a matter of planting up getting ready for the summer.

My New iPad

Today is Friday 16 March, my new iPad arrived. Oh boy! it is everything people have said it would be the screen is absolutely superb.

Most of the apps that I had downloaded in preparation for the arrival of this iPad have scaled to the retina display very well, even the ones that have not been altered so far look extremely good, I do however take issue with a couple of them, the BBC News and the Daily Mail newspaper apps I think look better using the web browser pages, I prefer the way they look on them and they do seem easier to use.

I have so far only played with the cameras that built-in they certainly do seem to be very good certainly the back facing camera and at 1080p video is absolutely superb, although you can look a bit of a dork waving this large screen in front of your face.

I am writing this post using the dictation built into the keyboard, it works very well if there are any mistakes when this is posted it is not my fault it is the fault of the dictation on this iPAD. Dictation is available throughout the apps on this iPad which is very useful but it does not like to fill in email addresses, or I have yet to learn the commands for writing figures numbers and symbols.

One of my gripes with the operating system is that in email there is no filtering allowed for junk mail, I have yet to discover the best way to prevent this from occurring I think I'm going to have to use an email client which is a blooming nuisance, but I have to figure this out and set it up.

One thing that I really am getting into and finding extremely useful is iCloud,I have in conjunction with the iPad bought new Apple TV dongle this allows me to stream content from my computer,my iPhone and my iPad straight onto my television. The added bonus being that with Apple TVcan connect directly to lots of applications Netflix, Youtube, Podcast, Movies and Music Videos many applications just a click of a button straight onto the screen, I had an original Apple TV years ago but this is way ahead of that, the resolution with this 1080p now is very very good even my photos look fine the content may be rubbish but the pictures look great.

There is a new processor for this iPad which means it runs very very fast indeed and of course using a solid-state drive, start-up is almost instantaneous.

Suffice it to say I am more than Delighted with the iPad and I would like to thank my family for giving it to me as my 70th Birthday and Christmas present I intend to get a great deal of enjoyment from it.

Once again thank you all very much indeed.