This is a lovely story, very intense and tight, it’s the penultimate story in the season, and a two part story, nicely leading up to what I hope will be an awesome finale.
Fourth Doctor Adventures, The Fate of Krelos
Month: July 2015
Oxted Beer Festival 2015
A nice festival and bigger than last year, or so it seemed. At least it must have been a bit bigger as they actually ran out of beer at the Oxted festival on the Saturday night. I’m not sure that I’ve ever been to a beer festival where that’s happened before.
It was a good event. Music wasn’t bad, food had some interesting choices too. But if anyone offers you a sausage role called a ‘ring burner’, just say no. Take my advice.
I forgot to add these to my long post about the North East rail trip
I meant to add these to the post about the rail trip.
And I know that I should have included this one too.
Updating the Firmware on my Pebble Time
I really like the way the firmware upgrade works for the Pebble Time. Nicely done.
Sounds: The Fellsman Leaving Hellifield Station
Dear IFTTT …
I’ve been a fan of what you do for a long time now so please take this the right way. I think what you do is great, but there are just a few things I think you should do sooner rather than later, and, if the truth be known, you probably should’ve done them some time ago. At least you should’ve in my opinion anyway.
So, just some functionality that you should have in as standard, or, if you prefer, as part of an advanced or paid for service even.
Here’s what I’d like to see:
- The ability to have multiple accounts on popular social media accounts like …
- Blogger
- The ability to properly daisy chain actions so that complex web and social media interactions can be built
See, it isn’t a lot to ask really is it?
A few days on the rail rover …
A couple of old friends and I decided to take a train holiday of sorts. In fact, to refer to it as just a train holiday does no justice to the vast amount of planning that actually went into this trip. It didn’t entirely work out for us in that we didn’t get all the journeys done that we thought we might, but it was good fun all the same.
We had rail rovers that covered a huge area in the North East of England.
These made it possible for us to travel all over the place just with these. It was amazing as I didn’t even know that these things existed before this trip.
Our trip had three bases over three nights. These were, Carlisle, on our first night, Settle, on the second, and Blackpool on the third night. I hadn’t been to any of these, so it was going to be interesting no matter what. Although of course, some places are more interesting than others, if you know what I mean.
The first stage to Carlisle was very pleasant indeed. We started our trip with G&T’s and moved on to a few pints of a very pleasant ale. Off the train and on to Windemere for another couple of beers!
Day two saw us on the historic Carlisle to Settle line, although we had a few false starts on the way. We stopped off just after the Ribblehead viaduct in Ribblehead station, which was very pleasant indeed. Settle is a little market town and we stayed the night there in a lovely B&B.
From Settle we went out to Hellifield station and managed to catch sight of the Fellsman steam train going through.
The station itself was lovely and retained some original features, although not all. Here are some of the details …
From their we got another historical line. This time the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, which is the line that was used in the film “The Railway Children”. In fact, we went through the station that was used. Oakworth station.
It was a lovely line. Very picturesque and pleasant, and it would have been even better if it hadn’t been tipping down with rain. But never mind. It was a very pleasant trip all the same. One of the reasons it was so pleasant was …
Our final stop on Wednesday was Blackpool, and we arrived just before this lovely sunset.
We didn’t really get enough time to do much in Blackpool, we visited one or two pubs but that was about it before we had to leave in the morning to get on with the final day of our trip. However, before we left I grabbed a picture of this great old bus.
Our last day had a couple of notable highlights to it. The first was Lancaster, which we visited twice in one day. The first time finding a nice little bar just near the station with an excellent pint from the Settle brewery called “Light”, and also sampling Fiddler’s crisps.
Very nice too actually. The second highlight was visiting Carnforth station where scenes from “Brief Encounter” were filmed. There’s a heritage centre there and a lovely 1940’s style tea room as well.
So we ended up back at Lancaster for a pint in the Robert Gillow before the train back to London.
And a very good pint it was too. So to end I thought I’d include the last photo from the trip which was taken at the Doric Arch pub at Euston, it sort of sums up everything I think.
Cheers!
Talking about SoundLab at Abbey Road Red
A few pictures from the talk I gave about SoundLab at Abbey Road Studios the other week.
Pebble Time and disconnection alerting
This is a very useful little Pebble Time app that just gives a signal if the bluetooth connection gets broken between the watch and the phone. It makes a lot of sense. If you walk away and have left your phone behind you at least your watch will tell you fairly quickly that it’s lost its connection. Of course that’s no guarantee that you’ll find it or someone won’t have taken it, but it’s a start.
I’m not a gamer, that’s for sure
I just often don’t really get games. I can play for a while then I just get bored. I don’t think it’s the fault of the games of their designers, I just think that I don’t get gaming anymore. I used to (a very long time ago) like some games. Titles like Doom, Myst, Riven. I enjoyed those games, but in recent times I’ve found very few games that have taken my fancy.
However, that seems to be changing a little. Mostly I tried out music based mobile games, and some of these I got on well with, but not always. Now I’m starting to find a few apps / games that I am getting on with, so I’ll be posting my thoughts on these soon. I thought that someone might find that useful, or at least interesting.
I am Ashley Elsdon 