Calendar Challenge - June 2011

A rather blank, stark page for June... wonder what it will look like at the end of the month....

I'm using Picasa to upload this and write this post... I've started to shift my files about in readiness for my iPad (£98 raised so far!)

Edited to make the photo bigger and add some links and tags... and why is there a Picasa logo here...

Calendar Challenge - May 2011

My May page for Calendar Challenge.

A linky to other pages by other participants will appear at The Kathryn Wheel.

garden 2011 - update

courgette sown 18th March and radish sown 1st May

The courgette plant was ripped (bit dramatic?) from the pot during the high winds last Monday...

baby sweetcorn sown 20th May

Cucumber sown 14th April (luckily still indoors!)

Knitting - Poppy

Poppy by Ysolda Teague

Another Poppy for Sea Queen day.

I love this photo of a limbless body... as seen here and here from previous Poppies.

knitting - cardigan

my head may have been turned... Lady Chatreuse Sweater (Ravelry link)

iPad madness (part 3)

Some interesting app recommendations from the I Love My iPad group on Ravelry:-

Paprika as a recipe book - clip from website and manually add your own (shopping list and use as meal planner too)
Quickoffice ($9.99) for viewing, creating, editing Mircosoft Office documents.
GoodReader (£2.99) for reading anything!  Annotate pdfs and zoom in too.  I especially liked this bit of their blurb "The ability to mark-up PDFs opens up new doors to GoodReader users who can now use typewriter text boxes, sticky notes, lines, arrows, and freehand drawings on top of a PDF file."  Probably just the same as iAnnotate?

and one I forgot from my last list - Spotify.

iPad madness (part 2)

A list of apps for my iPad (once I have saved up hundreds of pounds....)

It comes with 18 apps... including Safari (internet browser), iBooks (organise and read books, pdfs, documents etc), Notes (for note taking using the on screen keyboard).

Other apps I think I may need are:-

iAnnotate PDF (£5.99)- for taking notes on my patterns etc.
Flipboard (free) - puts all my social media in a magazine layout
Note Taker HD (£2.99) - writing and organising handwritten notes (may need a stylus?)
TuneIn Radio Pro (£0.99)- for listening to the radio!
Blogsy ($2.99) or BlogPress ($2.99) - writing blog posts


I'm going to read through the I love my iPad group on Ravelry for more ideas...