Candy Evans

I am the publisher! I'd definitely like to hear more!

This would be great if the library would accept books for their shelves! Our local libraries will no longer take donations of books by local authors, even if people go in and ask for them... 😥

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Do motorhomes and caravans count?!

Not an academic, but my journalist research goes mainly into Word with the documents filed so I can find them again (or not, as the case may be). Sometimes you can't beat an old-fashioned notebook, though.

Recently I've been buying direct from the manufacturer - getting on the mailing list is a good way to find out when things are on sale. Just bought some SD cards directly from Sandisk, with the advantage of knowing they are the real thing

Presumably not the same Boulton Paul who made the Defiant and other aircraft?

I've put one of my own features into an AI checker and it's come out at 100% certainly written by AI (in 6 different AI checkers). This is a feature that wouldn't have been used for training, so it seems anything well written is likely to be flagged as AI.

I raise you "Caecilius est pater" (1978)

Oh no, they're much too young! Now if you were showing seats from Whitleys and Wellingtons our household might have a chance 😂

The reality on the ground is that the capacity issue isn't on the London to Birmingham stretch... And the design process is massively flawed. Just on our very local bit, streams were rerouted up hill and the noise model is completely wrong for a high speed train, so costs will only get higher.

I'm one of those people whom you so politely say should leave. I see the unbelievable overspend locally on HS2 every day. The money could have been so much better spent on useful infrastructure across the country rather than this specific route that's already well served..

@cathrynpearce.bsky.social - please could I drop you a message about some naval research papers from my late father's collection that need a new home? I'm hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction!

I'm surprised it's that much - to be honest. We spent the day at Ingram's printing plant earlier in the month and they said the average number of books they print in an order is between two and three.

A red warning circle says "100%" inside it, accompanied by some text saying "Your text was detected as AI"

I took a consumer rights feature I wrote in November 2019, long before generative AI was a thing, and put it into an AI detector website. The screenshot shows the result.

All six AI detectors say it’s conclusively AI generated…

Winner of Dance Your PhD video contest is very atmospheric, the physics of cooking an egg – Physics World Excerpts from the Red Folder

Um, yes physicsworld.com/a/winner-of-...

One of my grandmother's friends used to be a wing walker. I was too young to understand the implications at the time so sadly I never spoke to her about it. She was just Ruby, the little old lady who played Scrabble with Grandma every week

I pay a few pounds a year to have my own domain and then use eM Client (free). I also have Outlook and Gmail accounts that I view using BlueMail, all in one place. When I think about it, I use Thunderbird (free) too. I may have too many email accounts!

This week I took some beautiful notelets to a wake, celebrating the life of our local legend Cyril Hobbins. They were created from pictures he'd painted in the summer, after learning a new technique in his nursing home at 87. An amazing inspiration! Sold in and of The Air Ambulance too

Thanks - I had guessed that! Not many Victorian aeroplanes around... ;-)

Thank you for this - I will pass the details on to my husband Mark, who's been involved

In our case it's WWII buildings in the Midlands that are better quality and have more reason to be protected than those already listed elsewhere, but are being rejected. I'm not sure of the exact details but could put you in touch if it might be helpful.

Interesting - we are currently having this problem with local aviation buildings from the first part of the 20th century

A picture of Rev Clive Fowle smiling broadly while holding his new book In Spite of our Differences, which has a colourful cover showing sunlight streaming down on the Danube with a bench in the foreground

Looking forward to next week's launch of a book that's needed today - real-life ways to resolve conflict springview.uk/In-spite-of-...

Out next week and available from our website if you're in the UK or other internet book sellers if you're elsewhere! springview.uk/In-spite-of-...

Thirded, I moved to this when I lost access to full Adobe. It's an older style interface but does everything well. The free version is good and you can try all the features (with a 'draft' watermark) to see if it works for you before paying. No subs!

Our local Facebook pages are great places to promote local fruit. There are people who have trees and more than they can eat (like us) and lots who don't, so there's always someone to rescue it! And others to provide jam jars for the jam makers et al

With you on that one, he's clearly so young...

YouTube video by WiggyVideos6 Cats U.K. - Luton Airport [totp2]

Clearly spoken by someone who's too young to remember... youtu.be/dldJCeZjcBo

I struggled to spell physics in the 80s when I was applying... Less of a problem then though