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A day at WOMAD

Posted by ashleyelsdonon July 26, 2015in Events, Festivals, Listening, MusicLeave a comment

I wasn’t able to spend the whole weekend at WOMAD this year, I was only able to go for the day this year. Which was ok. The weather was pretty awful on the Friday, so the Saturday was a good option in the end.

So as always here’s the obligatory photo of the flags. I think you have to take one as part of the terms and conditions of the ticket. I heard a few interesting things on Saturday. Possibly the most interesting was Hannah Peel, who I’ll be listening to some more of soon enough.

It was also good to see Hossam Ramsay doing a workshop at WOMAD this year. Quite a while ago I did a workshop where Hossam taught for a day, and that was excellent. I really enjoyed it.

So I’m glad I went. It was good to meet up with some old friends and see how the festival has come on in a year. I’ve been going for a long time now, not as long as some of my friends though, and it’s sort of become an annual tradition.

I like WOMAD, but this year it felt a little crowded. I’m not sure why. It was good to go for the day, this year that was enough for me.

A recording of Keighley And Worth Valley Railway (in the rain)

Posted by ashleyelsdonon July 25, 2015July 19, 2015in Places, SoundsLeave a comment

My favourite calculator app (Tydlig) needs to do more

Posted by ashleyelsdonon July 24, 2015July 16, 2015in Mobile ApplicationsLeave a comment

I really like Tydlig, it’s a little calculator app for iOS and it has a great design, but it needs to do a few more things to be truly great. Here’s my current wishlist:

Be able to store calcs as files or applets or something like that
Be able to reference external numbers like dates and times and be able to update stored calcs / applets in the background
Have a URL schema of some kind so it can be automated
And lastly, and least probably, integrate with IFTTT.

If it could do the first three things that would be amazing. A real step forward.

Old time ticket …

Posted by ashleyelsdonon July 23, 2015July 16, 2015in StuffLeave a comment

I prefer the old style tickets which needed to be punched and clipped by a guard on the train. Of course on some of the old heritage lines they still do that. These are lovely, much nicer to handle.

Tweaking the design

Posted by ashleyelsdonon July 22, 2015July 15, 2015in AdminLeave a comment

If you’ve been here before then you might have noticed that I’ve been having a bit of a tweak with the site theme and design. I think it might change more over the next few weeks, and if you get a chance it would be useful to know what you think.

Fourth Doctor Adventures, The Fate of Krelos

Posted by ashleyelsdonon July 21, 2015July 13, 2015in Books and Audiobooks, ListeningLeave a comment

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.

Oxted Beer Festival 2015

Posted by ashleyelsdonon July 20, 2015July 19, 2015in Beer, Events, FestivalsLeave a comment

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.