Category Archives: the filofacts
A FILOFACTS PAGE ON ROOFS
The Shed continues to do a bit of filing …
A FILOFACTS OF YOUTUBE TIPS
The Shed’s attempt to make something useful out of a pile of old cuttings continues …
PINTERESTING ON PLASTER
OF POSSIBLE PINTEREST
The Shed likes the Pinterest noticeboard but thinks the original idea must surely have been that everything fitted on one photo, rather than being a front page for several more? We’re working on the idea but meanwhile maybe it’s a … Continue reading
WINTER WALKS IN THE SOUTHWEST (and elsewhere)
On 23.1.16, the Telegraph published a list of 20 nice winter walks with pubs at the end of them. See the report at http://tinyurl.com/j9mfsss The South West entries, including a nice local one, were … St Michael’s … Continue reading
GOING FOR A SONG: HOW TO GET OUT OF THIS WORLD ON A BUDGET
The Shed has learned enough about funerals to want to keep a summary of Rupert Jones’s report on saving a few quid here and there, published at http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/oct/12/funeral-cheaper-alternatives-cost-of-dying-keeps-rising He wrote: “The average cost of a funeral was this week … Continue reading
A FILOFACTS ON COMPOST
In the original spirit of The Shed, we salute Elfreda Pownall and the Daily Telegraph gardening section of 7.11.15, preparatory to borrowing from the advice they got from a Belgian organic farmer, Marc Verhofstede, on producing good compost in double-quick … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 166: TURN YOUR PAD INTO A SCANNER
The Shed is filing a useful article from Computeractive: Turn Your Phone (or notepad) Into A Scanner. Multimedia experience follows. One click on the images should bring them up to readable size …
SHEDNOTES 158: A Filofacts on I.T.
More of this to come later, but here is the beginning of a Shed project to build a useful A-Z for bloggers … CUT & PASTE All bloggers need to extract the text from newspaper articles online sometimes and here … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 156: A Filofacts on Travel – Tipping
Tipping tips from a Guardian guide, by Patrick Collinson , Kim Willsher , Ashifa Kassam , Stephanie Kirchgaessner , Jon Swaine , Julia Kollewe , Maddy French and David Crouch, 25.7.15 … http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jul/25/tipping-around-the-world-holiday-restaurants-taxi-drivers-what-pay FRANCE Restaurants: At the bottom of a … Continue reading
