It is a filthy night on Benone. The wind has been at it long enough that the top layer of dry sand has packed up and moved itself down to Downhill, and what we’re sitting on now is the compacted damp stuff underneath, the kind that’s been there since before anyone thought to put a…
It’s 7am. I’m on the sofa of an Airbnb in Portugal and Reuben, all two years of him, is asleep against my leg. A bad dream woke him a few hours ago. Kathy took the sofa shift first, but I’d been tossing and turning anyway and sleep wasn’t coming back, so we swapped. She got…
Wondering if your business is ready for AI? Most businesses get AI wrong before they spend a single penny on it. They start with the tool. Someone mentions ChatGPT at a networking event, or a competitor posts something about it, and suddenly there’s pressure to do something. So they sign up for something, poke around,…
It arrived on a Monday, exactly a week after the Irish website came to the rescue and a friend’s address just over the border became an unlikely fulfilment centre. Kathy was already near the border in Derry doing errands in the car, so she collected it. By the time she got back, I was parked…
The Reactive Outdoor 3 Secs Tent nearly had its first outing at midnight. Friends stayed too long, started weighing up whether to just stop over, and I was three sheets to the wind, putting the bed up wasn’t happening. They went home. The tent stayed in its bag. But it was close enough that the…
I’ve been testing the Kilos Gear GrandPeak high back camping chair on a beach in Northern Ireland, and if you’re a van lifer or motorhomer who’s been through the same revolving door of camp chairs that I have, this review is for you. Short version: it’s the first one I’ve sat in that I didn’t…
If you live in Northern Ireland and you’ve just had a part shipment notification from DJI, with no explanation of what’s missing or when it’s coming, welcome. You’re in the right place. DJI won’t ship to Northern Ireland, at least not everything, not anymore, and finding that out takes about a week of emails and…
I wrote that line in our last post about the DJI fast charger warranty return, talking about the difference between being stranded and being inconvenienced. I didn’t expect to be taking my own advice quite this fast. The replacement DJI Power 1kW Super Fast Car Charger, fitted at the end of June after we’d gone…
There are two places to park near Magho Jetty in Fermanagh. One of them has a toilet, coaches pulling in throughout the day, traffic thundering past on a road that’s closer than you’d like, and not a single flat section of ground. The other one is a dead end gravel track through the forest that…
Teslovix got in touch and sent us three Starlink Mini accessories to review. My own Starlink is permanently bolted to an aerial pole on the roof, so I borrowed my son’s Mini and put all three through their paces in the van. He doesn’t make YouTube videos. He watches them, which is close enough. The…
