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Thurnham Hall

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We went for a short walk this morning around the grounds of Thurnham Hall.

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Thurnham Hall is a great place to stay – the villa we have is well equipped and the facilities on site are excellent. The only downside is the complete lack of free wifi to the accommodation – you can buy wifi access via Swisscom – a quick search of my blog will show you what I think of this service, which has never worked for me. So be careful when you see “free wifi” in the Diamond Resorts advertising, you can get free wifi in the bar (probably), but in your flat or villa for comfortable, available internet access you will be expected to pay Swisscom.

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For the BlogPad Pro Team

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I have been in email contact with the team at BlogPadPro who have been very helpful in dealing with some issues I had with my sites. The support they have provide has been first class. I emailed them late in our business day, and they responded quickly and continued to respond all evening until they got to the final answer, which was a theme issue.

Frosty Nettles - for the BlogPad Pro team

This is a test post to check all is working.

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Tay Forest pt2

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The sunny day gave some great views and added extra highlights to the snow shots. Many of the paths though were really muddy – and some would be best described as streams – it shows how much rain there has been.

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this is a panoramic shot taken using the Apple camera app

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I had lunch at the Black Rock view point – above the view at lunch

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there was a lot of logging activity in the forest – it meant changing my planned route several times but it did supply some material to photograph

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I could not post this last night as I had no 3G signal and I have given up on Diamond Resort’s Swisscom Internet. At first I put it down to local conditions but as it persisted this morning I called T-mobile, free from my phone (150), to see if they could help. I had to then pay a reasonable 25p to talk to the support staff but after a couple of minutes discussing the issue with him, he updated the service to my phone – I rebooted it – and it was back on 3G. I have no idea why this happened but the help I got from T-mobile was first class – and I was pleased to let them know this via the text they later sent me.

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Last photo on my iPhone 4

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I am about to swap my phone over to an iPhone 5. So having used the iPhone 4 to both take the photos and post articles to my blog for the last two years – this is probably my last photo and post using it.

The phone has been reasonably reliable – except for the reoccurring speaker issue, so I have bought an AppleCare Plan with the new phone just in case I have a similar hardware problem. I have been pleased with the phone and after we get it serviced Diana is going to start using it.

Why change? I really wanted the better camera the iPhone 5 offers.

I am writing a series of articles for the Octagon website about changing and setting up an iPhone – read more here. and watch out for the first photo and blog post from my iPhone 5.

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