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Posted in: I.T. Non-Techie help, information and tips
We are going to Japan in the not too distant future. We have iPhones 7 on EE sim only contracts. In Japan we will want to be able to use phones for incoming and outgoing calls, check emails/websites etc . I know we can use WhatsApp when we can connect to wifi and we can switch on EE data roaming but it’s nearly £9 a day. I think we can download esims very much cheaper. I think after downloading one your phone should just work as normal, have I understood correctly? Does anyone have experience or could someone read up on esims and confirm my understanding? Any help appreciated. -
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Posted in: Save The Planet
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I really enjoyed this one. I thought it was an interesting and disturbing story, full of complicated characters who challenge you to like them. I thought it was a very pessimistic view of S. Africa and its struggles. I don’t know whether things are any better now. I know there was a lot of symbolism attached to the dogs in the book but never quite got my head round it. I can see why it won The Booker prize. What did you think? -
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Posted in: Book club
Oh dear, what can I say? I really didn’t take to Cloudstreet and have no idea why it was picked as one of the books of the decade. Perhaps you need to be an Australian to really get it. I found it very monotonous and I’m afraid I didn’t get very far at all - perhaps only a third of the way through - and somebody else will have to tell me whether or not it improves over time. I just felt the pace was so slow, the characters didn’t really engage me, the story took too long to develop. Seems some people really love it, but not me! -
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I recently heard Baroness Warsi explaining why she’s still a Tory despite hating most things about the current government. She explained that she was a Tory because she believed in small government (I think she used the term small state) and believed in individual hard work, taking personal responsibility, etc. etc. I know similar views have been expressed on SL a fair few times. This set me thinking about the role of government. I believe in all the things she referred to, such as hard work, families and communities helping themselves, but I think the idea of small government is something of a myth. And used at election time in a dishonest way. The last few Tory governments have been anything but ‘hands off’. As an example, they have encouraged such things as free schools, run outside of the state system, whilst simultaneously interfering in education like never before. Can we ever truly have a small state? -
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Posted in: Book club
We’re up to the 80’s now and I’m thinking of Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. It gets good reviews - a saga of two families - it’s supposed to be a funny book (though I never think they are). I think he’s a new author for me and I don’t think we’ve read an Australian author. It’s available on Kindle and there are second hand copies at reasonable prices. Shall we give it a go? -
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. I don’t quite know what I thought of this novel. I read it with ease - it flowed along smoothly enough and I enjoyed lots of individual scenes but I’m not sure whether it held together as a coherent narrative. I found some humour, bit forced at times, but think the danger is that the characterisation suffers… they became a bit ‘cartoonish’ on occasion. It did make me curious about the history and culture of the Parsis (Parsees?) but again I felt they were sometimes caricatured. An aside - Freddie Mercury was a Parsi apparently. How did others find it? -
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Posted in: Save The Planet
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We’ll need a ‘visa’ type document soon (2024) and people are being advised to apply early as application might take 30 days to process. Cannot apply just yet as law not yet in. I am flagging this up early! Edit: Oops not sure that link will work for all. https://www.aol.co.uk/uk-holidaymakers-warned-euro-pass-105240881.html -
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This is my suggestion for a novel from the 1970’s. I chose it for several reasons. It’s a comic novel and we can sure do with humour in our lives, and it’s by a Pakistani author and I don’t think we’ve read anything from Pakistan. It’s on kindle, and there seem to be a few cheap copies going. Discussion starts on 16th September. -
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