Open CameraWhen recording videos on my phone I discovered it didn't react when I plugged in an external microphone. I'd even bought a second, more expensive, cordless one thinking my original cheap one was faulty.
The instructions for the second microphone suggested an alternative camera app was needed. This article describes the app I installed and what it taught me about phone cameras.
Walking Around Winterton-on-SeaBack in October 2025, we moved from our home of a dozen years at Ruston House in East Ruston to a converted derelict farm labourer's cottage at Winterton-on-Sea. Our new home village is a little further the other side of the small Norfolk town of Stalham. While unpacking went quickly enough, finding a new home for many or our goods took time but with everything now with a place it appears to be becoming a Saturday habit to walk down to the local Post Office and take breakfast or a light lunch there.
Canalside CottagesWe often visit our granddaughter who lives with her Mum in Sale and stay for a few days in a cottage that was probably built in the 1770s and sits on the towpath of the Bridgewater Canal at Preston Brook. The building of Bridgewater Canal kick-started the Industrial Revolution and the cottage was built at what was to become its junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal. There's a whole lot of history there which I'm beginning uncover in this article.