My 5 day break was immediately followed by a domestic duty so I didn’t do a Salisbury run for nearly a week. On my first day back Paul D, another driver on the Salisbury rota, asked if I’d seen any of the strange ‘cobwebs’ which had appeared in hedgerows along the route. I told him [...]
Entries from May 31st, 2009
Cathy Buckle’s letter
May 30th, 2009 · Comments Off · Zimbabwe
Saturday 30th May 2009 Dear Family and Friends, The unity government is being torn apart over the retention of the Reserve Bank Governor, Gideon Gono. While they argue, threaten and grandstand, we look at our tattered lives. In a box, abandoned and covered in dust and fluff, lies the evidence of my lost life savings, [...]
The Tough Decision
May 25th, 2009 · Comments Off · Miscellaneous
For family members, it is often the most difficult and painful decision they will face: to accept that a loved one � a parent, a spouse, perhaps a sibling � is technologically impaired and should no longer be allowed to live independently, or come near a computer or electronic device without direct supervision. The time [...]
The new Winchester P+R site
May 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Buses
Building work has started but they don’t know how it will connect with the City! Full story in the Hampshire Chronicle here. Ever since the site was confirmed I’d been wondering ‘Why there?’. For starters it’s on the same side of Winchester as the existing St Catherine’s P+R site and is only one motorway junction [...]
Cracked it!
May 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Miscellaneous
Last month I wrote about using my mobile, with a built in GPS, to transmit my current location so that my movements could be tracked on a map. I couldn’t ever get it to work with my mobile reporting a ‘Network Error’ each time it tried to transmit location data. In the end I gave [...]
Letter from Zimbabwe
May 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Zimbabwe
Dear Family and Friends, As Zimbabwe struggles out of the darkness of a decade of dictatorship and political mayhem we are beginning to see how hard the return journey is going to be. And how long. Little snapshots tell the story: Two policemen, in uniform and on foot, did a walkabout tour of some local [...]
