This entry doesn’t fit into the order of the usual travel reports, which are still horribly late. It’s just a few words on my state of being for the last couple of weeks. Once again, India has worked it’s magic on me, and has taught me a lesson, the hard way.
My mum arrived in India [...]
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Downsizing
We’ve downsized a lot. Living out of a backpack for so long, we found that most of the stuff that we had unpacked from storage was completely unnecessary. Old clothes and random nick-nacks went to the charity shop. Out went our TV, DVD player and stereo; all of which were replaced with our laptop [...]
I was trying to find out how to pull down RSS Feeds to my e-book reader. The Sony software is fairly shite in a lot of ways, one being that by default you can only pull down feeds from a specific set of sources that Sony has set up. Not very flexible. Searching for a [...]
Getting rid of our TV was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. Apart from a couple of series that we like to keep track of, and the football, there’s absolutely nothing that I miss about having a television. No, I don’t know who was voted off of the latest (un)reality TV show, nor [...]
We’ve been back in the UK for over a year now so I thought I’d share some thoughts on what life’s been like.
Life certainly is different since we’ve been back.
There are a lot more mobile entertainment gadgets to ensure that the no eye contact rule is easier to keep while riding the tube. More free [...]
Not having a TV, we sometime spend our weekend evenings with movie watching on our gigantic 13 inch laptop screen. Not exactly a cinema-style, but it does the job. We are constantly searching for movies that are interesting and entertaining, but without the violence and crude jokes that so many of today’s movies rely on [...]
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