I love little number tricks. This page is to help me remember them. They’re very difficult to describe in words, and I don’t have any nice mathematical or graphical tools, so it is a bit hard to follow some of them. But go practice. They’re a lot of fun once you get the hang of The full story here…
Fruit Bowl From Newspaper
Here’s an idea to use up an old newspaper. Make it into a fruit bowl. It took a while, but was surprisingly easy really. Thanks Ikchha for the YouTube instructions. Link below.
Surviving a Broken Arm
Believe me, I do not want to do this again, but in case I do, here are some pointers. I’m not medical – go somewhere else for proper medical advice.
Elderberry Wine Retro
We tried two wines, one was bottled at the end of 2020 and the second bottled mid 2021. Interesting comparisons and some learnings.
Age Calculator App – Navigation
Really I need some serious navigation to be added to the Weather app. But there is already so much going on there, that it will be easier to learn about it on the Age Calculator. It is just a single screen, but it could be made nicer using fragments, and this will bring the navigation The full story here…
Age Calculator App – Data Binding
This carries on from the previous post of View Binding. So set up gradle in the same way as described there, if you have not already. And then lets get started.
Age Calculator App – View Binding
Doing the Google Kotlin training courses on Udacity – here – they’re free, why wouldn’t you. If you use View Binding, you can link the view to the code at compile time – potentially improving the performance.
Age Calculator – AutoComplete Field
I don’t want to use a calendar selector. You’re always hunting backwards and forwards for the correct month. I decided it would be better to use an AutoComplete text field. The most you ever have to do is click 3 letters, but that is only if you are born in June or July.
Elderflower Champagne – Year 2
For the first batch, I got in nice and early. The flowers are lovely and young. Actually picked at 6am, but it was a dry day, and they were lovely.
Bath Salts – First Attempt
Pick a nice warm day for pottering in the garden. It will be even better if you can find a friend to sit and chat with.