Blighty Bound - Day Fourteen, Some Apple Success

 

This day was marked down as a "help the folks" day, transferring some apps from an old iPad to a shiny new Kindle Android tablet, but first we were on a mission.

When we'd arrived in the UK, we'd dropped DW's dad's Army medals in at a place called The Bigbury Mint, where they were going to clean them, replace the ribbons, and mount them in a presentation frame. Today we went to pick them up, and goodness what a good job they'd done. The run down to Ermington, just south of Ivybridge was OK, but the mile or two to the village was on those lovely narrow Devon roads, and there seemed to be a lot numpties about this fine morning. In order to make any progress, you have to drive co-operatively, backing off when the road gets too narrow to pass oncoming cars, and not being a dick about it. Today people were not being too co-operative. I was not happy.

This time at the Bigbury Mint, we drove down the vertiginous hill to the workshop rather than walk, and that cheered DW up no end. As I said, the medals had been prepared, and the woman at the workshop showed us how the medals were mounted in the case, and how to remove them so they could be worn. If you have any medals you want refurbishing, I can heartily recommend the Bigbury Mint.

On the way to Roborough, we stopped at Chris' Crafts again and picked up a few little bits and bobs for Charlie's model railway, then we drove around to the Plymouth Barbican and ate our picnic lunch while overlooking the entrance to Sutton Harbour, and Millbay. Although windy, the sun was shining and it was a very pleasant pause in the day.

Up with the folks in Roborough, I managed to successfully port an Apple iCloud email account onto the Android Kindle, which I was quite pleased about. They claim security, but the process that Apple demands in order to run an iCloud account somewhere other than on an Apple device is painful. Still, it was mission accomplished. I even paired up some Bluetooth earbuds to the Kindle, so I was on a roll. I also looked at updating the map on one of their car's navigation system. It's a Garmin, in a Honda, the same as we have back home, but whereas I've been able to update ours regularly, Honda UK says that the updates have to be performed by the dealer. Ah well, nice try.

We headed home at about 8:30, not least because we were both absolutely shattered. These past two weeks have been catching up with us. That didn't stop us staying up to watch the BBC's Question Time programme on TV, which was more a political debate than anything else. We did get to laugh at the knobishness of the Reform Party spokesman though, as did the audience. 

Tomorrow is a visit with my family, and hopefully a walk along the beach at Exmouth. The weather's looking set fair, so it ought to be a good day.