In Which Now I Take More Than One Tablet Plus More On Maesteg,Penguins and The White Stuff

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

I start the post by the admission that, at time of writing, I'm the owner of two tablets. One is the Samsung (yes that type of tablet) I've had for a few years now. Works fine for me, though I'm sure if I let my daughter get her hands on it then things might improve....but I'm not.

Now I have another. An Amazon Fire (yes I know you're impressed). Why? Well as always with these things it's a combination of money and opportunity. Work gave out a £25 shopping voucher as a Christmas gift. Trouble was the shops involved tended to be specialised (I have no intention of going camping when central heating is available at home) or places that I wasn't sure what I'd wanted for the money.

But then I noticed Argos was on the list, and having known that they were flogging a 7" tablet for £49.99 (add £10 for the case) thought that if I'd use the vouchers then the cost would be cheaper. My other thought (and yes the brain does hurt) that post brexit these sort of things might be considerably more expensive in the future in case the Samsung went down. So the Fire was bought.

So  how do I use them? Well not wishing either to be offended basically it's 9-5 for the Samsung and 5 until sleep time for the Amazon (remember I do shifts so this isn't work related). I find that the Samsung is for more serious matters, the Amazon is far more for fun at present. There are some apps (Pinterest, Twitter, Podcast Manager) that are on both machines but as I mainly use Facebook in the evening I've deleted it from the Samsung. Exactly the same with Netflix, although Amazon keep on trying to tempt me with Prime Video until we as a family no longer have Netflix on the TV they might as well not bother.

(That said I can buy things on Amazon Video and put it on the cloud. You may think the best Revenge is eaten cold but it actually was season one - it went downhill after that)

My music collection, small that it is, has been moved to the fire. Always found it better than Spotify anyway. And of course I can use it as a Kindle ereader

As they work on different systems the contact and diary parts have to be written separately. Which may seem stupid now. But come the day when one of them falters then you'd understand.

Does all this make me an internet junkie? Well I don't know. Perhaps if you see me rushed into hospital for an emergency operation to extract either tablet from my hand...perhaps then.

Today (Friday) is the last day of my two week stint as chauffeur to my daughter to and from school. Although by no means perfect her knee is far better than it was before Christmas so from Monday she will be using the bus. After having dropped her off decided to go onwards to Maesteg for some grocery shopping. Noticing as I did that although the snow didn't appear to have hit the town it reached the surrounding hills.

So Maesteg. Best view from a town centre car park in Britain anyway, now with added icing.

Does make you stop....at least for a little while

And again

I will return to more views of the area in a moment. But first having also gone to the indoor market there which I've mentioned previously, two Penguin paperbacks were bought for 50p each (remaining budget now £2.57).

This was the first.

Helen Dunmore - A Spell Of Winter

Should perhaps mention here that when I revealed it on Twitter there were a number of positive responses. Seems encouraging then.

The other was:

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Heat and Dust

As promised two more pictures before I leave you today. This was taken just outside Maesteg.

A quiet beauty

And this was from the village of Cwmfelin

If it wasn't for the cold I'd have been gazing for quite a while

This is exactly how I like snow......picturesque and from a distance.

Until the next time.