It’s eleven in the evening. My dogs are in their bed my
living room is so quiet apart from the gentle ticking of my red glass clock in
the hall. My Son left the house to drive the two hours to the zoo this morning
exactly twelve hours ago. I’m looking forward to hearing all about his day, but
he is still out, he has let me know he is back in the area, but now I think he
is in our town having a meal. He will be exhausted.
Tomorrow morning I’m dreading. The piano tuner is coming. Oh
gosh, it’s down to me to sort that all out. So firstly the money, I will use
Tap Tap See to sort that, on my IPod, thank goodness for that. It takes me
forever to get it to read money, our tuner wants £65, a fortune. His prices
have gone up by ten pounds since a year and a half ago. It’s been that long I’m
sure since we last got it done. We have left it as long as possible. Oh the
blooming noise is awful; I don’t know how the poor man stands it. He can play
as well, some of you Bloggets may not know, but not all piano tuners can play
piano! This guy is great, but he only gives a concert for the last three
minutes, the first part, one hour and twenty seven minutes, is plonking
pingging and banging.
And that’s just me in the kitchen? Haha.
It’s a good job I can trust him, because to be honest, I can
tell it’s slightly out, but if he fixed it ever so slightly, I would be
satisfied, but there is someone in this house who is totally pitch perfect and
he notices if a fly is hovering over his keys.
Tap Tap See is a great application for the IPhone today I
had two bottles for the bathroom. I held the phone or in my case for now, the
IPod. It uses a camera so your Iphone or IPod has to have a good enough camera
on it to work, so the Iphone 4 won’t work, but anything bought in the past
three years will be fine. After a few words, and beeps, it works and tells you
what it is. Sometimes it will just say a
green and white bottle for example, but today read. “Apple and pear shower gel.
Then second bottle, the make of the shampoo and fragrance. It took to read both
bottles about two and a half minutes. So if you can see, it would have took
about two seconds, so those of us who can’t, we really do have to have
patients. But thank goodness for it, same as to get £60 of the 65 I needed for
the piano tuner, it took about a minute to learn I had three twenties. Sometimes
it reads the words out to you, bank note, well, I know that… I want to know the
number, and it does read it sometimes eventually, immediately. When I’m doing
the washing, each and every single item I check, I used to remember most of our
clothes, but now my memory of them is fading, so by the end of my wash days I’m
exhausted, but again, Tap Tap See makes it possible to differentiate whites
from darks like reds.
Another application you can get on your IPhone is called
KNFB. It is brilliant, Hub has it on his phone. It reads the mail. Even I have
had a go and it reads well.
Other applications I have heard about for those of us who
can’t see is Ivoice translator. You speak into the phone and it translates I
think over sixty languages and it’s very inexpensive at about £1. Siri is free
with Iphone 4s and above. You just ask your phone a question and a voice will
answer you do web searches and so on.
Lots of things out there, but treatment to give us sight
will be the best thing we can even dream about. Hopefully our dream will turn
into reality soon?
My little Hennery vacuum is broken, honestly, it’s something
every single few weeks in this life. If it’s not our shower, it’s our bath, if
it’s not the bath, it’s the garage door then the microwave and the electrics as
well as a leak in our ceiling.
Hennery is great on hard floors, but he keeps fallen over.
Seriously, he is like a drunk on a Friday night. But bless him, he still has
his smiling face.
Just found out that Hub is going to Ireland with his job. I
wonder how the little fella will cope with a flight?
Until next time with love. X
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