h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So this evening you have been too busy noodling around with your new iPhone to actually be bothered to write a proper post.

You took it out for a walk today (your children came too) and spent a very happy half an hour in an autumnal graveyard taking photographs. With your new iPhone. Hey, it was atmospheric. And the squirrels were obligingly plentiful, which meant you could concentrate on your new iPhone without too many distractions from the Star. You would put some of them here, but you haven’t got round to figuring out how to sync your new iPhone to the computer yet.

You had planned to post to Twitter and Facebook and the like from your new iPhone on the way home, just because you now can, but the Star, who normally cannot be dragged away from the place where you can see trains, today decided that two minutes was quite enough of that and he wanted to get on with scootering.

Since then you have been tapping away at your new iPhone’s screen finding out what all the little icons let you do, marvelling at how controlled the scrolling is, swearing every time you need to type an M on the keyboard and hit delete instead and trying to find an app that converts the keyboard into Cyrillic.

You have even made a call using your new iPhone. To Russia, none the less, using Skype. How cool is that?

Oh and you also made dinner, played with the kids a bit, put them to bed and so on.

And yet here you are, not writing this post on your new iPhone. This is because you have developed cramp in your thumbs.

Maybe tomorrow.

Incidentaly, by 'some of them' you mean 'some of the photographs (which you took with your new iPhone) not 'some of the squirrels'.

[Team Edit Function]

Although squirrels would have also been .

I think a function that allows us to upload squirrels would be much cooler than an edit function.

I've never seen an actual squirrel. Am I missing out?

A function which allowed us to upload squirrels and no other images would be even cooler...

Squirrels are like rats with fluffy tails. They are deceptively cute. but I wouldn't touch one.

Squirrels are still eating the bulbs out of my planters. Downside, will have to plant them again, with added chicken wire. Upside, the Star is deeply excited every time he catches one of them at it. And they are rather cute.

The Star caught a squirrel once. We turned round and there he was holding it upside down by its tail. I don't know who was more surprised, us, the Star or the squirrel.

All parties came off unscathed.

Am in about 73 minds about iPhones. Every time The Shiny overwhelms me, this drearily sensible little voice in the back of my mind pipes up: 'But you don't NEED one.' And I'm floored.

Ag, I am with you there. My husband occasionally tries to buy me an iPad*, and I spend half of my time remonstrating with him that I really don't need one, and the other half silently remonstrating with myself that Yes I Do.




*Actually, what he *really* wants to do is give me his, thus freeing himself to buy an iPad 2...

Well, B's problem with the iPhone was that I don't actuallu use mobiles much. But my point was iPhone is that it isn't a phone per se. I wore him down by saying 'and if I had an iPhone right now, I could look up the best way out of this traffic jam' and so on for six months.

Now I am having to wrestle him for it, so I suspect that he may be getting one for his birthday. Or possibly an iPad.

Of course, now I have gone away for the weekend and forgotton the charger.