My wife and I recently took a short break in Bruges. (It's in Belgium.) A wedding anniversary treat. We travelled on the Eurostar from St Pancras to Brussels. This was partly because Mrs S is a nervous flyer, and partly for reasons of cost. We both had reservations about the subaquatic rail tunnel, but the … Continue reading Trans-Europe Express: A Break in Bruges
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Mart’s Radio Highlight of (last) Week: Home Front, September 15th 1917 – Ivy Layton
If you're not a regular listener to Home Front this may not mean a lot to you, but the burgeoning romance between Ivy Layton and disfigured soldier Dennis Monk has been bubbling for a while. Wonderful writing and acting, and the delicate pacing of this story, made the final lines of this episode a real … Continue reading Mart’s Radio Highlight of (last) Week: Home Front, September 15th 1917 – Ivy Layton
The iPhone Kiss
Got an email from Apple about the iPhone kiss, Just another mobile, mate, think I’ll give it a miss, Not stumping up a grand for more unnecessary tech, Bloody mobile phones they’re a pain in the neck, No doubt the fanboys'll start to form a queue at three, Just to beat their mates to get … Continue reading The iPhone Kiss
Mart’s Radio Highlight of the Week: the BBC’s iPlayer Radio app
Smartphones. They didn’t exist ten years ago, but now they’re glued to palms of all ages. They're affecting social interaction, causing our thumbs to become enlarged and unsightly bends in our necks. Something like that anyway. It’s raising concerns. More than once I’ve considered getting rid of mine and reverting to a smaller, lighter, less distracting, … Continue reading Mart’s Radio Highlight of the Week: the BBC’s iPlayer Radio app
Mart’s Radio Highlight of the Week: Moving to the Red Planet
Although this programme was originally broadcast on 7 March 2017, I only got around to listening to it this week, so... In Moving to the Red Planet, Claudia Hammond discusses the psychological challenges facing human travellers to Earth's nearest neighbour, such as isolation, lack of privacy, and clashes among crew members. While the physical challenges … Continue reading Mart’s Radio Highlight of the Week: Moving to the Red Planet
Mart’s Radio Highlight of the Week: Dr John Cooper Clarke
Brilliant punk poet Dr John Cooper Clarke is interviewed and drawn by Martin Rowson on Radio 4's Life Drawing. Dr JCC: a unique combination of insight, entertainment and art. What lasts longer than a pop song? You'll forget about any book. You'll have to read a book again. But a song. A popular song. That's there … Continue reading Mart’s Radio Highlight of the Week: Dr John Cooper Clarke
Scrivener tip: Lickety-Split
To quickly split the screen without leaving the keyboard simply hit: SHIFT+CMD+" This makes it particularly easy to compare two Binder documents, or refer to one pane – say something you have in your Research folder – while writing in another. When working with text documents the zoom can be set independently in each. For … Continue reading Scrivener tip: Lickety-Split
