Author: nealpp

  • Jofli at Scarborough

    Jofli at Scarborough

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    We visited Scarborough today, mainly for the cricket but also went up to the castle and for a paddle. Jofli went with Thomas and had a photo at the cricket ground on North Marine Drive.

  • Jofli and Thomas go to the home of Yorkshire Cricket

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    Thomas took Jofli on his 1st trip to Headingley today (the home of Yorkshire CCC). They both enjoyed watching the Warwickshire wickets tumble in the sunshine after lunch. Thomas just wished they could have wrapped things up today before the rain came. Thomas is pleased to say the last 2 wickets were taken for a…

  • Thomas is Introduced to Jofli

    Thomas is Introduced to Jofli

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    Jofli is a little bear who left his mum and dad (Mr and Mrs Bear) in the forest and went searching for adventure and new friends. Along the way he found Thomas and he will go with him on all his adventures, take photos, complete his journal and blog!   The name Jofli is made…

  • Spring is here!!!

    Spring is here!!!

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    Stunning day yesterday at Nostell Priory. The Magnolia and Acers down by behind the lake area were gorgeous, and what a lovely place for a picnic!!

  • Temple Newsam

    Temple Newsam

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    After living in this area for over 16 years, it is quite incredible that I’ve never been to Temple Newsam, a large estate on the outskirts of Leeds. It is owned and managed by Leeds Council, and they do an excellent job. The house (which we didn’t go in today) is late 18th Century and…

  • Libreoffice v Office 2013

    Libreoffice v Office 2013

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    Libreoffice is a fork of the more well-known OpenOffice. OpenOffice was taken over by Oracle, leading to the problem that it might not be truly open source. It was then taken over by the Apache project, but in that time most Linux distributions had moved to the Document Foundation's Libreoffice, and it is widely considered…

  • Visiting Santa at The National Railway Museum, York

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    We booked to go to the National Railway Museum (http://www.nrm.org.uk) Santa’s Steam Adventure with Thomas. Even at 11 weeks old, we thought it was time to meet Father Christmas. The museum was well adorned with Christmas Decorations and the bottom platform doubled as the place where all the mail gets sorted for North Yorkshire (North…

  • Harewood Autumn 2013

    Harewood Autumn 2013

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    Harewood Autumn 2013, a set on Flickr. A lovely day out at Harewood House, this place is stunning at every time of the year, but none more-so than Autumn. Sneaky little picture of Thomas in his new carry thingy as well!

  • My Favourite Open Source Software

    My Favourite Open Source Software

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    I’ve used a fair bit of open source software in my time but have increasingly found myself using more and more. It seems the quality of a lot of the software is maturing and more notice is being taken of user experience. Open source software is defined as: Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with…

  • get_iplayer on Ubuntu

    get_iplayer on Ubuntu

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    get_iplayer is a terrific little programme to download BBC TV and radio programmes off the iPlayer service. On Ubuntu, get_iplayer is packaged so go to the Software Centre and install. Note the a dash is used in the package not an underscore! Running get_iplayer is hardly the easiest, so this is how to do it.…