This blog is about life on board our narrowboat Sanity Again, cruising the inland waterways of the UK (mainly in the spring, summer and autumn) and living in a marina in the winter. It's the way I choose to write it; if you don't like it, there are many other boating blogs.
Friday, 2 August 2013
Hot loaf at Croxton
This morning was wonderfully fresh after a hot and sticky night. It’s a good job we don’t have Sally with us yet, she’d have been miserable trying to share the bed with us, though Elanor reckons she would probably have spent the night in the saloon lying on the cool(ish) floor.
We did another trip to Morrisons just on nine: still cool, but the morning rush had abated. Indeed, the place had far more staff around than punters. Apparently the store only opened in January, which explains a) why we didn’t notice it before and b) why it still feels very shiny and new.
Back at the boat we frankly just loafed after putting the stuff away; it was already getting hot again and was soon too hot to contemplate boat washing activities. This cunning plan for avoiding excessive exertion came slightly unstuck with the discovery at lunchtime that the iceberg lettuce that looked OK from the outside was an oozing black mess within.
Since the menu calls for salad tonight, there was nothing for it but for me to make yet another trip, this time to Lidl where I got some Spitfire ale at 4x500ml bottles for a fiver as recompense for slogging it through the heat of the day.
We’ve been doing some more loafing this afternoon; I also did some Googling about the expected battery life of a Kindle. We got our two at the same time in September 2010, so they are just under three years old. We seem to need to recharge them every couple of days these days, and it’s a bit premature for the batteries to be ageing it seems to me, a view largely supported by discussion on the MobileRead Forum.
Suggestions are: 1) search for a meaningless string like zzxxk in My Items; the search will come up blank, but will also report if the Kindle is still trying to index one or more books. This didn’t find anything on ours; if it had, the answer is to delete the problem book and reload it.
2) Recharge the Kindle for a long time, like overnight. This is tricky for us until we’re back on shore power as we turn the inverter off overnight; I’ll try a charge tomorrow while we’re cruising.
3) Call Amazon customer services and ask about it; they may well just replace the Kindle if its battery has failed too soon.
Tomorrow, we’ll set off reasonably early, water below the Big Lock and then press on to Wheelock
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2 comments:
Re your Kindles. I find that as long as I leave the internet in aeroplane mode (ie, it is off) the batteries last much longer. I charge mine in the boat or the caravan using a 12v cigarette lighter type socket with the USB cable plugged in (with neither the engine nor the inverter running in the boat and just battery power in the caravan) and that seems to work well. I think you have to let the battery go right down every now and again and then fully recharge to keep the battery happy.
Beware cheap chargers with USB slots in them though. I got mine in Maplins and took their advice about what I needed after getting one off Ebay and fortunately finding out before I used it that it could kill my Kindle :-)
Ann
Thanks Ann - we leave the WiFi off all the time except when loading books, as you say it makes the battery last much longer.
I'm not sure about running the battery right down - MobileRead folks seem to think you should avoid the Battery Critical" message if at all possible.
All the best
Bruce
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