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1061 days ago
For the more technically inclined I thought I'd expain how I have managed to update this journal whilst we've been in Argentina. I used my PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), which is both a voice phone, data phone and camera phone. The model is an MDA III from T-Mobile, which is about two years old. It runs Windows Pocket PC operating system, whixh includes Pocket Word and Pocket Excel. The MDA III was connected in Argentina to the Personal network via roaming with T-Mobile. This meant that there was a GPRS data connection pretty well wherever we went, and that it was possible to send email from the phone. The Windows Live Spaces online journal was updated just by sending an email to a special Spaces address. This included photos as well. The MDA III has a WiFi connection as well and it was possible to go into most cafés and get a free wireless connection. Both our hotels had free wireless connections, the one in Buenos Aires even had free Wifi in the room. This is in contrast to ...
1061 days ago
Saturday 30th: We arrived safely at Heathrow at 7.15 am and are due to arrive in Peterborough at 11 am. The British Airways flight, which included a touchdown at Sao Paulo, was on-time and without incident. Mrs Larcombe ordered a vegetarian meal option on the flight - then spent the time wishing she'd had the 'normal' option, which included a chocolate brownie! Happy New Year
1062 days ago
The full extent of Mrs Larcombe's preparations for her return to the UK may never be known. She has been taking full advantage of the fact that it costs about one third of the UK price. Our reporter has managed to detail and photograph some of them: Tanning - this has been a seven- week process culminating in a dark bronze tan. No doubt Mrs Larcombe will be wearing lots of white clothes in the coming weeks! Hair styling - the full extent of these cannot be revealed for reasons of national security, but the photograph shows the amount of attention that she is receiving from two Argentinean hairdressers. Pedicure and manicure - some sort of scrubbing, cleaning, pasting and finally painted nails. Top lip - done before she knew it or even asked for it. Eyebrows waxed - we do understand that nothing else was waxed!
