Weekly Roundup, Friday 10 April 2020
Good morning Happy birthday to the iPad, turning 10 this week. I still have an original iPad – actually two (my daughter gave me her original one back when I upgraded hers, some years …
Good morning Happy birthday to the iPad, turning 10 this week. I still have an original iPad – actually two (my daughter gave me her original one back when I upgraded hers, some years …
Good morning Today is a Black Friday – the 13th of the month, and traditionally an unlucky day to travel. Whether related to Black Friday or not, my thinking has been clarifying over the last …
Good morning News came out on Thursday that because of New York state’s policies shielding the state records of illegal aliens from federal organizations, the Department of Homeland Security announced that no-one in New York …
Good morning I hope you had a very pleasant Thursday. As sometimes happens, various winter storms and “bomb cyclones” seem to have upset more than a few travel plans, and I spent an anxious day …
Good morning It is nearly time to start counting down to Christmas, and certainly time to think about Thanksgiving. I’m already seeing articles about anticipated Black Friday specials, to say nothing of Cyber Monday too, …
Good morning It is now barely a week until Labor Day and the traditional end of another summer. The airlines are gleefully banking rich profits due to travel this year being up 4% on last …
Good morning Happy 100th anniversary this week to trans-Atlantic air travel. Most people don’t even know it was John Alcock and Arthur Brown, two British fliers, who completed the first trans-Atlantic flight, traveling east from …
Good morning I hope your Good Friday is off to a good start, and your Easter Weekend will be spent most pleasantly, including, for the Christians among our readers, some extra time pondering and being …
Good morning An unplanned, but interesting (I hope) attached article today, being a review of a third emergency car battery “jump-start” unit. Unlike the two reviewed last week, this one works well and I can …
Good morning I hope you had a great April Fool’s Day on Monday. This year, more than previously, I found myself struggling to tell the jokes from reality. For example, this story about a tiny …
Good morning Did you wake up to notice anything different in the world this morning? No, neither did I. It was to be today that saw Britain leave the EU, subsequent to its referendum to …
Good morning I hope your Halloween was enjoyable. My long dark driveway (and, ahem, German Shepherd) tend to keep the number of trick and treaters down to a very small number each year, but Anna …