Reading
Kindle Oasis: 2016 vs 2019
Let’s get this out of the way right at the start: the Kindle Oasis is an expensive bit of kit. It’s £229.99 for the base model, rising to £259.99 if you want 32GB of storage […]
Year: 2019
Writing
Why research matters in novel writing
One of my favourite non-fiction books is Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer’s (& Editor’s) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, & Myths by Susanne Alleyn, not only for the […]
Places
London =/= England
Last week I got into conversation with a family from the US who were (understandably) flummoxed by the convoluted process of trying to buy train tickets so they could go and see Windsor Castle as […]
FSX
Saitek Multi-Panel Fix Part 2
I wrote before about a fix for the blank screen issue on the Saitek Multi-Panel. While that fix did work for me, I found another, much easier solution. Go to codelegend.com, download the APM fix […]
Churches
Whitby Abbey
Bran Stoker’s Dracula was published in 1897, but over 120 years later visitors still flock to the little seaside town of Whitby in North Yorkshire to see what inspired the writer to pen his iconic […]
Castles
Caernarfon Castle, Wales
I’ve previously written about Conwy Castle and Caernarfon is another of Edward I’s Iron Ring of colossal fortresses built in the 13th century to establish English dominance over Wales. Caernarfon is a brute of a […]
FSX
FSX: iPad cockpit instruments
Last week I wrote about an issue I had with my Saitek Multi-Panel and it was actually while I was in the process of working out that fix that I came across the RemoteFlight iOS […]
FSX
FSX: Fixing the Saitek Multi Panel blank screen issue
I love my Saitek gear but what I love less is an almost trivial issue that a lot of people seem to have: the screen of the multi panel not showing the numerical display. After […]
National Parks
Peak District well dressing
Well dressing is an ancient custom, probably dating back to Celtic times, that is still followed in the English Peak District. Every year, in summer or early autumn, teams of volunteers in villages and towns […]
FSX
FSX and the phantom CRJ
Every now and then FSX throws up something so random you just have to laugh (unless it’s right at the end of a 3 hour flight, in which case aaarggghhhh). And so we have this […]