Blogging from South Yorkshire
First Impressions
For the last few years working from home I’ve been using a couple of old office chairs that my previous company were throwing out as they moved from the building they were exiting. They’ve been great chairs but recently have been falling apart. One had the back snap on it, the other started making worrying noises in the same area and all four armrest tops were splitting and falling apart. It was time for me to go on the Great British chair hunt again.
Almost perfect for me, just a couple of minor compromises I bought this convertible laptop after my previous purchase of a Dell XPS 13 9350 died and had to be returned to the manufacturer. This laptop had the slight compromise of no USB type-C port, and only 8GB of RAM, rather than 16, but had… Continue reading HP Spectre x360 13″ OLED review
Holidog have been streaming a torrent of direct marketing towards me since I registered with the site a couple of years ago just to get a feel for the service. These emails continue sometimes daily despite me having never used the site either as a pet sitter, or for pet sitting services. However, when they… Continue reading The Holidog ‘Happy Box’; free automatic renewals and poor customer care come as standard
A noisy machine that will mutate into an expensive paperweight I’m very sad to report that my Dell XPS 13 9350, with core-i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD has had to be returned to the manufacturer (at their insistence, I’d rather have had it fixed under the warranty I bought with it). Most… Continue reading Dell XPS 13 9350 Review
Mrs Zoo Keeper has not used her iPad mini (1st gen, 16GB, white) for a number of months now, so she decided to start the process of offloading it. Apple products tend to hold their value well, so selling it seemed to be a good idea. Having had not too great an experience with fleaBay… Continue reading Plunc – Recycle your old iPad
