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  • 101 uses for a Senior Railcard

    The weather forecasters are getting the weather quite accurate at the moment after a summer where they got it disastrously wrong most of the time. So it was easy to arrange, on Monday, a walk for Thursday – knowing that it was going to be the best day of the week. So it turned out.

    The four of us hopped on the Coryton train at Heath Low Level and then (from Coryton station) walked down to the Glamorgan Canal at Forest Farm and then down the Taff Trail to The Bay, stopping at The Butcher’s Arms in Llandaff for lunch.

    Coryton to the Bay at EveryTrail

    Our return saw three of using our Bus Passes on a bendy bus that took us back to the Central Station and then, after battling with the ticket machine, we returned to Heath Low Level on the Coryton train – nice circular end to the day.

    Lovely walk. Lovely company. Thanks for a great day!

  • Does Social Media Imply Twitter and Facebook?

    Does Social Media Imply Twitter and Facebook?

    I thought I was splitting hairs yesterday. I was trying to make the point that admitting to not using Twitter and Facebook was the not the same as admitting to not using social media. Social media does, after all, take other forms. I did think this was a somewhat pedantic point to make, but then I was arguing with a self-proclaimed pedant whose Twitter bio gives their location as “My High Horse” so I wasn’t going to let that hold me back.

    It seemed for a while that anyone making serious use of social media would likely be on Twitter. It has been such a fabulous tool for networking, conversing, sharing links and such like and it has long had a critical mass that makes it seem like given almost any interest you could connect with like-minded people and discover valuable information. I can entirely see why my interlocutor felt Twitter and Facebook are indicators. (more…)