The plane touched down at Heathrow at 7:40am, I picked up my hire car a soft top sports saloon. I had ordered a a bottom range basic car. As it was out of season they have to have so many miles on a car before they can sell it on. So I was lucky I now had a nice flash […] Read more »
We left the story in 1983, life moved on with a emigration from Nottingham UK to Australia in 1986. A series ‘Reach for The Sky’ on TV has just concluded. This was followed by a program on a young lady searching and finding her father. They meet on a railway station with ‘The first time I saw his/her face’ song […] Read more »
My last report on GPS time to acquire a fix was 10 days ago. The Iconia Tablet has been indoors with GPS turned off all the time since a fix 10 days ago. Time line from GPS turn On :- Standing within 3 meters of where the GPS was turned Off. 20 seconds = 4 Satellites displayed, the various Satellites […] Read more »
The nursing home. What I already knew from my adopting parents was where I was born. Birdhurst Lodge in Croydon Surrey UK. An Auntie had worked there and mum & dad used to send a donation from time to time and we received a publication from them. In 1974 on a work visit to Croydon in my lunch hour I […] Read more »
Today I used the GPS Status & Toolbox application from Eclipsim to reset the cache so that I could start from square one with new Almanac data. It was raining heavy so I could not go outside to get a fix so I left it in the window. It took around 40 mins to get a lock. After 30 mins […] Read more »