Frances Bell’s Blog

Alerted by Darcy Moore on Twitter, I was browsing around The App Garden at flickr, and found a comic strip creator called Bubblr.
Here is my first attempt (OK it’s one picture not a strip).

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I don’t usually post stuff like this but here goes.  My adult sons returned from a camping trip today, and I was directed to their photos.  This one really made laugh. Relaxing after a trip to the pub, watching film on ipod (propped up against the Good Pub Guide), large nightcap and mobile phone at [...]

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I noticed that sales of Spam have increased http://www.dailyyonder.com/spam-sales-soar-shoppers-look-cut-costs and the reason given is that consumers may be ‘trading down’ to Spam.
I have an alternative hypothesis - Gmail is inadvertently (I assume!!!) marketing Spam. One of my little tasks when I visit my Gmail account is to visit my Spam folder and clear [...]

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I loved this picture from the BBC news site. We had a bit of snow in Macclesfield though it was already melting by the time that I got out of bed at 8.30.

If you go to the flickr page for this photo http://flickr.com/photos/francesbell/2355361074/ and click on the note you can see the daffodils [...]

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Check out the colour browsing option at Etsy.com .

Wow! I am really impressed! - now can they create a ‘touch’ search so that I can find silky or soft craft items? Don’t you just love etsy?

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