Apologies for anyone who has had duplicate comments from me on their blog lately.
For the last 2 weeks I have been trying to come to terms with a new i phone, I think thats what they call it, which does everything except what you want it to do.
I was quite happy with my 15 year old Nokia push button, even though you could hardly seen the screen for scratches, but with pressure from Lynda and the daughters off I went into the 02 shop to check things out and reluctantly came out with a new set up and only costing me about a fiver a month more on my contract.
Lynda calls them a slidy slidy phone with is not compatible to motor mechanics fingers either sliding it too fast or trying to stop it on someones number and dialing someone else.
The good news is I sorted how to do the grapevine straight away with it which was the most important thing.
The salesman in the 02 shop asked to see my old phone with regards to updating it and when he,d stopped laughing asked if it was a collectors item.
He told me these new phones are marvellous , they can even tell you where you,ve been during the day and put it on a map for you to which I replied, "but I know where I,ve been, why do I have to look on my phone to see that". He,d no answer to that other than he thought, I,ve got a nutter here.
Anyway, its a 2 year contract so by that time I may have got used to it.
The handy thing is I can check the blogs and e mails at work instead of waiting for the evening session on the laptop so until I suss it you may get 2 comments each.
So thats another move forward that I said I,d never do the same as CB radio for birding contacts and then computers which I said would never catch on.
I must admit, against my Victor Meldrew opinions, that modern technology has opened a whole new world on the birding scene. When I started ,and for many years after, if you found a mega you had to leave the area and dash around trying to find a phone box that worked , always keeping tuppence in your pocket for the call, and when you had alerted the cavalry and returned to the site you had lost the bird.
You will have probably realized after reading all that garbage that I did,nt get out birding today due to a howling snow blizzard as we got back from town which lasted over 1 hour until near dark leaving us with a good covering and treacherous roads. See what happens in the morning.
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WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING. BRIAN SUMNER. I am based at Queensbury and bird a patch within a 10 mile range of home incorporating 16 stretches of water, several plantations, a belt of woodland, stretches of river and canal and good areas of moorland. I specialize in upland birds, reservoir and sky watching. My local patch is Fly Flatts reservoir. Any reports can be sent by text or call to 07771 705024 or see profile for e mail address. All images on this blog are copyright.(2024).