Pictures at an Exhibition

Well, perhaps not an Exhibition.

It was another crisp bright day, the sort that makes the heart soar. The Gorse Fox was up early and had an hour or two at the laptop before the others emerged. Once everyone was sorted, the Gorse Fox tried out the new toy. This is a Karcher hard floor cleaner. The last hard floor cleaner we got, from VAX, was absolutely useless after the first few runs. The Karcher seems a lot more robust and you can actually see it mopping the floor with its rollers as you switch it on. It took a little while to go right through the hall, kitchen and Orangery, but the results were very encouraging.

The Silver Vixen has her birthday approaching and according to the website is now eligible for her bus pass. The Gorse Fox got the form filled in and attached a passport-style photo. The envelope is ready to post on Monday and then, when the pass comes through, she can join the rest of us "oldies" getting free bus travel.

Cousteau-Cub spent much of the day writing various social media articles for The Adventure Club. The Silver Vixen came down clutching the Canon Selphy photo printer that the Gorse Fox had bought her a couple of years back. The next 30 minutes or so was spent going through the instructions to remember how it all worked. AT first we used it as a direct WiFi connection whereby it creates its own WiFi cloud to which you can connect phone or computer, then the Gorse Fox decided this was going to work out to be too confusing as we wanted to move photos around between devices at the same time. The printer was then switched onto the home WiFi network. This was a lot easier... and the Gorse Fox found he could use the printer from the MacBook without any special drivers. The Silver Vixen then spent the rest of the afternoon selecting photos for our various empty frames... while the Gorse Fox went out for a walk.

The selection of photos is not complete, but we now have a small pile of photos ready for their various frames. The Gorse Fox must say that he is very impressed with the printer. It's not like an inkjet, spraying pixel by pixel, but rather it lays down one colour at a time, drawing the paper back an forth under the ink cartridge. The finished job is excellent.