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Post by Moose on Feb 26, 2017 22:52:18 GMT
I think I can get out for five mins and perhaps even more . The trouble is that if I am expected to be somewhere on a given time and date then it makes it all that much harder - I am all about spontaneity where I don't have the time to start fretting and panicking. I do feel quite chilled about Kelly visiting though (and tangent should be there too) simply because they know what it is like for me and they won't be offended if I am not able to do things.
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Post by Moose on Feb 26, 2017 22:53:51 GMT
Go easy with the smart phone - I got very frustrated with mine at first. Now I would not want to be without it but it did take some getting into .
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Post by tangent on Feb 26, 2017 23:48:42 GMT
Well....I now have a 'smartphone'. Some kind of Samsung product. Excellent. You also need a protective case so that when you drop the phone on a hard surface, the screen won't crack. ( When you drop the phone, not if.) Screens cost something like $240 to replace, although the phone will probably still be usable with a cracked screen.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 26, 2017 23:57:52 GMT
The protective case was ordered today and is on its way.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 0:41:40 GMT
Well....I now have a 'smartphone'. Some kind of Samsung product. They won't let me play with it, yet. Swimmer and her brood are going to teach me how to use it in the next month, plus. Samsung - excellent choice. So easy to use. Good luck with your training
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 27, 2017 2:17:40 GMT
Thanks. I expect to have my nose rubbed in it.
I dunno if I'll get rolled newspapers or not...newspapers are hard to come by these days.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 27, 2017 2:32:52 GMT
Hmmm...Looking through 'the book' I had on Wales, Insight Guide to Wales, the author actively waves folks off of Pembroke Dock and Milford Haven as places to be avoided. Pembroke Dock is listed as most notably being the site of WWII's longest burning urban fire....Cheese, what happened to all the floatplanes anchored in the bay?
Any way, Carmarthen looks to be a winner from the book, but....and here's the rub....it was published in 1989. A lot can happen in 25-30 years....
I think I'll look online for 'Things to Do in Dyfed'.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 27, 2017 2:42:42 GMT
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 27, 2017 2:54:30 GMT
HOoooo! This looks useful. I'm parking it until I can look at it more thoroughly, find things which pique my interest and then see if they are along my way and reachable.
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Post by hexgoblinweb on Feb 27, 2017 14:29:36 GMT
I so envy you, WG.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 27, 2017 16:16:08 GMT
For being semi-disoriented?
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 27, 2017 23:06:11 GMT
HOoooo! This looks useful. I'm parking it until I can look at it more thoroughly, find things which pique my interest and then see if they are along my way and reachable. Okay...After the initial run-through, I've decided quite firmly to the negative on two of them. I will NOT be trying the bog snorkeling mentioned in #3, nor shall I be riding the zip line in #68. There are a few others which did not raise much interest that included athletic events or races. Definite musts: #14, shouting threats from the battlements of Caernafon; #15, kicking the bar in Aberystwyth; #19, wandering St. David's; #29, sampling artisan Welsh cheeses; #48, up Snowden any way I can; #61, the Great Orme in Llandudn;, and #74 Blaenan Ffestinog. Other offerings which look enticing include several food musts (often including ice cream), like #1, #11, #38, #63, #64, #70, #87 and #93. Since the National Library of Wales in in Aberystwyth, it may get a visit. If the National Botanic Gardens (#24), the Bosherton Lily Ponds (#21), and the bluebells at Wenallt (#32), are within reach, they'll be added. There are any number of suggested strolls, many beaches. Any which require significant climbs or looong walks are pretty much out, but Mwnt (#92), Tre'r Ceiri (#26), the Pontypool Folly (#33), Tyddyn Llan (#46), Carreg Cennen Castle (#95), and St. Winifred's Well in Holywell (#85), all hold some promise. Maybe. Machynlleth Center for Alternative Technology (#86) intrigues.
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Post by hexgoblinweb on Feb 28, 2017 13:35:08 GMT
I mean for having the time and ability to travel the UK like you have planned.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 28, 2017 14:15:40 GMT
It's called 'retirement'.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 2, 2017 22:05:57 GMT
The protective case was ordered today and is on its way. I now have a protected smart phone. I took Mary's pix, but we gave up on trying to email it and we'll wait until we have more active participants in the "show the doofus how to use his smart phone" sessions. Hey, we got the cover on. And...It comes with a handy dandy clip/sling with holster attachment doohickey. This is so I can snap it to my belt and approximate a super-dweeb by spinning it around, snapping out my smart phone and taking photos. I'll look a proper tourista twit. (Actually, I expect it will snap to my 'purse', aka 'backpack'.) Expectations....way-finding, booking ahead, amusement whilst waiting and transiting (particularly airline travel), texting home, photo journal. I leave the camera and its attachments at home....net space gain, actually.
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Post by hexgoblinweb on Mar 3, 2017 14:14:49 GMT
Being nosey, what did you retire from, WG?
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 3, 2017 15:15:28 GMT
The majority of my 'career' was as a 'library technician 2' in a regional health sciences university library. I spent near thirty years as a library clerk doing interlibrary loans, circulation, reserves, and finally, cataloguing and digital transfer of theses and dissertations. During the span of my career, libraries moved from index cards in slide trays and triplicate forms to digital records. I was not a librarian, which requires a MLS, but support staff for professional librarians. Prior to that, I had a brief career as a secondary social studies teacher (after going back for a graduate degree), a brief career as a worker-owner of a recycling and refuse collection collective, and a brief career as an 'economic development specialist' (aka 'an urban economist')....which is what I studied as an undergraduate. The retirement program started with the library job...I'm basically a retired public employee.
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Post by hexgoblinweb on Mar 4, 2017 13:22:27 GMT
Talk about a full life. You have been one busy man, WG. I still envy you.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 4, 2017 16:12:24 GMT
Talk about a full life. You have been one busy man, WG. I still envy you. Thanks, but my employment has only been a portion of my life. I take greater pride in some of my accomplishments outside of work.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 6, 2017 17:36:51 GMT
WOOO-HOOO!!! Well, I'd been wondering when I could squeeze in a visit to Cosford, near Wellington, to visit the RAF Museum there. I'd had it on my radar because it was usually mentioned in the next breath after Duxford as a place for aviation enthusiasts in the UK. Today, I stumbled across this, thanks to a link provided by a fellow aircraft modeler. An RAF Air Show! At Cosford. On Sunday, June 11....just three days before I'm to report to Duxford. Air show! Sha-ZAAAAM! ETA: Bought my ticket. I'll need to book in to Wellington and take the rail to Cosford.
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Post by Sarah W. on Mar 6, 2017 18:24:22 GMT
It's great when things line up like that. :-D
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 6, 2017 18:55:52 GMT
The latest update on itinerary:
April 20/21 - PDX to Vancouver to Heathrow to Carmarthan. <camp> Tour SW Wales. Bus or train to Aberystwyth. <camp> Attempt Mach Loop and be willing to decamp and recamp. Tour mid-Wales coast. Porthmadog <camp> Tour Snowdonia. Caernafon Castle. Portmerion. Local trains. <recamp in NW?> Venture to Liverpool Airport via train to connect to Citilinks to fly to Ronaldway Airport on Man. <camp> Tour Man. Fly back to Liverpool and then train to Whitehaven. <camp> Tour Cumbria. May 26 -Train to Aberdeen <camp> May 27 - to meet ferry to Kirkwall. <camp> Tour Orkneys...SKARA BRAE Ferry to Lerwick <camp> Tour Shetlands....JARLSHOF May 30 - Ferry back to Aberdeen <camp> May 31 - Train to Inverness <camp> Tour Speyside. Distilleries. Bus through Cairngorms National Park to Perth, Stirling and Falkirk <camp> Visit Falkirk Wheel. June 10 - Train to Wellington <camp> June 11 - Visit RAF Museum, Cosford. June 13 - Train to Duxford <camp> Visit Imperial War Museum. June 17 - Fly on Dragon @ Classic Wings. Train in to London for British Museum and Tate visit. June 21 - Fly home.
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Post by tangent on Mar 12, 2017 9:06:37 GMT
Venture to Liverpool Airport via train to connect to Citilinks to fly to Ronaldway Airport on Man. Citylink or Citywing? This BBC article says that Citywing provides flights from Liverpool to the Isle of Man and it has just gone bust. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-39238929
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Post by Kye on Mar 12, 2017 10:23:17 GMT
WG, in looking at your itinerary, I noticed how close it's getting! I remember when you were first talking about it and it seemed so far away... You must be getting excited!
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 12, 2017 18:57:23 GMT
Yeah...Butterflies.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 12, 2017 19:01:14 GMT
Venture to Liverpool Airport via train to connect to Citilinks to fly to Ronaldway Airport on Man. Citylink or Citywing? This BBC article says that Citywing provides flights from Liverpool to the Isle of Man and it has just gone bust. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-39238929Oop...Well, I'll have to look back in to that. Thanks for the heads-up. I'm sure that there are other 'short-haul' local airlines which serve Man and can't imagine that the Liverpool airport wouldn't be a hub for that service. ETA: Yep, it now looks like FlyBe dominates the Liverpool flights to IOM.Prices will probably go up, though.
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Post by tangent on Mar 12, 2017 21:49:35 GMT
Prices will probably go up, though. And there may be a shortage of seats.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 12, 2017 22:51:20 GMT
Prices will probably go up, though. And there may be a shortage of seats. Perhaps, but there look to be multiple flights each day.
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Post by tangent on Mar 12, 2017 23:46:04 GMT
Ok so unlikely to be a problem.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 13, 2017 0:11:10 GMT
I guess I'll find out. If it's too much of a pain, I'll backtrack and ferry.
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