Land’s end to John O’Groats …… by public bus

 A few days ago, a few chaps started an epic Land’s End to John O’Groats journey by public bus (no National Express, Flixbus nor Megabus).  Yup, that’s right, buses that cost a maximum of £3 a ride.  One of them happens to be owner of one of my favourite X and Instagram accounts, Every Last Station.  You can follow them here.

I’m tempted

I’ve always wanted to do such a thing myself, can’t decide on the mode of travel.  By foot would be stages over the summer months that could be done over a few years. Or since I like cycling I could do in a fortnight or so by bike. Such a journey would take me to many towns, cities and villages in the UK that I’ve never been to before.  Not sure I would copy these chaps and go by public bus though.

Total War on the Apple Ipad

Has anyone played any of the Total War games on the Apple Ipad? How was it? I’m thinking of buying a copy on Apple Store.

In praise of ….. playing boardgames

My Kerplunk game

Despite living in the era of mobile devices with their multitude of games and numerous consoles, I still play old style board games on a regular basis, but why?

Within the family, we still play Blokus, Top Trumps, Rummikub and Kerplunk on a weekly basis.  It brings us together, and now the children have left home, just me and the wife. Like everything, I play to win and sometimes a human opponent is harder than the highest level CPU one. I do love a mental challenge.  It’s also the satisfaction of setting up the game and putting it away afterwards. 

Regardless, I still play my Sony PSP and the Sony Playstation 3 when I’m on my tod. As a technophile I believed board games will rendered obsolete and made extinct, along with museums, cinemas and hard copy books, but no, still here. 

Do you still play boardgames? Let me know in the comments.

Everybody writes by Ann Handley: a review

Like any good perfectionist, I wanted(and still want) to improve the output of this blog so I bought the this highly recommended book for blogging and online content.  Did I find it useful though?

 

“Everybody writes” is broken down into five parts and a total of eighty three chapters.  Most of the advice given is aimed at online marketing people rather than bloggers.  Although as a blogger it gave some useful advice in how I write to engage the reader as well as to entice the reader to read the post in the first place. 

More detailed advice included the style of English to use, how to use headings and sub headings to break down the text and fair use of stock images.

In terms of blogging advice, I was expecting more practical items and give the reader detailed real world examples. Still it was an interesting read and very enjoyable. Not bad considering I bought it second hand.

Israel, Palestine and Gaza

Is anyone else sick of hearing about Israel, Palestine and Gaza on the news? I am. 

Operation raise the colours

Anyone in the UK seen England flags or Union flags being flown in public?  Or has anyone been involved in hoisting such a flag?  I find its a great idea, flying your national or regional flag is not racist.

Singaporean visitors

 I’ve noticed in the stats column that my blog is most popular amongst netizens from Singapore.  Even though I haven’t written anything about the place nor have I been there. I hope to rectify the latter bit sometime soon, I hear its an interesting place. Anyone from Singapore or anywhere else please feel free to leave me a comment and I will endeavour to respond to them.