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  • What’s gone wrong with Apple’s leather iPhone case?

    What’s gone wrong with Apple’s leather iPhone case?

    I’ve always been a fan of Apple’s official iPhone cases, specifically the saddle brown leather version. I’ve been buying them since the iPhone X, but the latest version, for the iPhone 12 has left me disappointed.

    Here’s my case, after a year of use…

    Do you spot anything unusual?

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  • An embarrassing look

    An embarrassing look

    I’ve been suffering from a bad shoulder since the beginning of the year (it turns out that I have a frozen shoulder) and, yesterday, I had my first physiotherapy session for it. Because of the ongoing pandemic it was via video call.

    However, I should have maybe chosen a different room other than my home office to do it.

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  • Shit my neighbours have complained about

    Shit my neighbours have complained about

    That’s it. I’m going to keep quiet no longer and I’m finally going to write about… the shit my neighbours have complained about.

    For context, there are 3 neighbours in this discussion, which I’m going to give nicknames…

    Opposite

    Unsurprisingly, they live opposite us. They’ve been really good since we moved here around 10 years ago. We take in parcels for each other and have had a cordial relationship.

    Attached

    Their house is attached to ours. She hates cats and have told us as much. We have 2 cats.

    Detached

    They’re on the other side of Attached but their house is not attached.

    A parcel courier told me that they’ve told them to never ask to look after a neighbour’s parcels because they’ll always refuse.

    In all 3 cases the neighbours are a lot older than us and I would say for certainty are all retired. Maybe having that amount of time on your hands has something to do with this.

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  • The one thing you need to know about diets

    The one thing you need to know about diets

    I wrote some time ago about the fact that I’d been on a diet. I lost a crazy (but not unhealthy) amount of weight and been steady around a specific weight now for over a year.

    Whilst reading about a co-worker asking about diets, I stopped myself from replying to them – the thing is, one post aside, I haven’t spoken much about my weight loss, and this come back to why I didn’t reply to my co-worker. Simply put, diets are an incredibly personal choice.

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  • The Amazon Alexa outage that hardly any-one noticed

    The Amazon Alexa outage that hardly any-one noticed

    Or rather “only I seemed to notice”.

    I use my various Alexa’s for various purposes but they’re primarily used for playing the radio. Whether it’s Absolute 70s in the kitchen (yes, I am that old) or LBC in my office, they’re great. But on Wednesday that stopped working and, with nobody else reporting the same thing, was it an unusual issues only related to me?

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