This is when you start thinking about holidays and lazing on beaches, climbing mountains for those unending vistas, investigating what’s under that large rock at low tide and all those wonderful things that you come across when the pressures of home and work are put on the back burner, if only temporarily.

This is also when you realise that you still haven’t “emptied” the camera from the last time you left the house! Please make sure you back everything up - you may’ve heard this from me before!

On another totally unrelated matter, I had a really interesting conversation with a friend of mine who said she was thinking about getting an new portable speaker with Alexa on-board. Now, being a Mac-based person, I use Siri quite often for things like searches, weather, phone calls and navigation while I am in the car but I haven’t really looked at what can be done when you’re at home, especially when it’s Alexa and not Siri you’re talking about.

A couple of interesting nuggets is that my friend wants to listen to her music in the garden while she’s weeding and pruning. Alexa also needs to be ready for cookery recipes when in the kitchen so whatever she gets has to be portable and also connected to Alexa through voice only as my friend doesn’t have a smart phone. ……….. I’ll let you know how it goes!

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