Day trip out with the northerners to Wentworth castle/gardens. Went to playground first for B&H and what a great playground it is. Castle, digger and aerial runway to mention a few. Then went off round the gardens on a fairy hunt with the chance of winning a bag of sweets. In the gardens there were some great plants, including some artichokes in bloom. There were reports of 3 spotted fly’s but we did not catch sight of them. We did however see a goldcrest which was unexpected. We returned to the playground for a final go on the swings, then it started raining and we went home.
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Well we’re on the road again. Pootling up a busy M1 to visit Neils family oop Norf. Looking forward to a fun weekend with the diddleys and it is pure coincidence that there happens to be a beer festival in the vicinity. As an aside, allow me a momentary rant if you will; we have just followed a car through MK where the driver in addition to the passenger spent most of the journey peering into the backseat and gurgling at his offspring. How is that different to being distracted by a mobile phone? Perhaps some sort of blinkers could be applied? PS don’t blame Neil for this one, this is all Hel
PS. Saw these folks on the way back to the station. Helen reckons it’s a somewhat worrying indication of the state of the British banking system! Thought I would give you all an update on my walk to work routine. Things are going well I have not missed a day yet, in the three weeks I have been walking. I am getting to know the wildlife that is about on the route, and this morning I thought may be there was an ark nearby, as all the birds seem to come in two’s. First I saw a Grey Heron fly along the canal, and later another one fly the other direction. In a regular spot I saw two Bull Finches (male and female), they seem to always been in the same short section of the canal, and I suspect that are always there unless someone has passed before me and scared them off. Then I saw a Kingfisher fly past twice, it was a bright iridescent blue because it was flying away with the sun behind it. It may have been the same bird twice, but I am claiming it as two different birds! Other stuff that is often out there are Hares in the fields adjacent to the Buckland Road, as well as an elusive warblerish bird that I have yet to get in the binoculars.  This blog entry is bought via windows speech recognition. I thought I would give the features a try. I am using windows of this for you access the speech recognition features from the speech recognition option in control panel, you need to make sure that your microphone is well placed and the sound levels are right. It helps if you go through the tutorial as lists is the way of teaching your computer help to understand the nuances of your voice.So far so good as long as I speak then this seems to do a good job for recognising my voice. For example in this blog entry I have trouble with the first sentence two of the words were not recognise correctly. I have also noticed that’s even though I selected United Kingdom as the language it appears to be using American spelling, for example if recognizing oneself with a Z.
If this works out well the idea for be for me to record log entries on a recording device, then find a way of getting windows to convert the recording into a text. I am not sure how successful this will be part I have noticed that there are quite a few open source software programs that claim to do the job.
I suspect that I’m need to get a better microphone because the one that I am currently using does not go very far into the from the section on the microphone test programme.
So far so good as long as I speak then this seems to do a good job for recognising my voice. For example in this blog entry I have trouble with the first sentence two of the words were not recognise correctly. I have also noticed that’s even though I selected United Kingdom as the language it appears to be using American spelling, for example if recognizing oneself with a Z. If this works out well the idea for me to record blog entries on a recording device, then find a way of getting windows to convert the recording into a text. I am not sure how successful this will be part I have noticed that there are quite a few open source software programs that claim to do the job. I suspect that I’m need to get a better microphone because the one that I am currently using does not go very far into the from the section on the microphone test programme.
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