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Stockton – Norbury

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

I am back from my week afloat and now have 10GB of photographs (as each is about 80-100KB, that’s quite a fair few), or there about, which considering I took three 4GB cards did at least mean I had worked it out right. I was using the Canon camera I had bought second hand and [...]

Next Trip Stockton Top – Norbury

Friday, March 12th, 2010

I’m out afloat for a week going from Stockton Top to Norbury Junction over this next week. I should be heading up Hatton Locks on Mothering Sunday, then taking the GUC route to Birmingham. I won’t be going in the city centre this time, instead I’m going via the Tame Valley Canal and then exiting [...]

Win7 features on an old XP system?

Friday, March 5th, 2010

I have a laptop with windows Vista on it, and have even bought Windows 7 (well this copy is either going on my laptop or if I decide to build myself a new desktop, then that), but I still have a desktop with windows XP on – wow it almost sounds as if it’s some [...]

Planning for the BCN

Friday, March 5th, 2010

I’m off out on the boat in mid-March, taking the boat from its base on the GUC to one on Shropshire Union  for 2010 (which means I can then do the Llangollen in August), which means I’ll be going through Birmingham. Well, you could avoid it, but I like the BCN – though I’ve not [...]