what have you bought that you wouldn't be without?

[BeRational]

If BeRat got his Hudl for £9, I can tell you exactly why you can't get them anymore. There is no way to make a tablet for £9.

I see from the Tesco web site that you can buy a Hudl 2 for £99 but I am sceptical that there is any margin even at that price. I read an article a year ago which said that Apple makes more profit on tablets and phones than all the other manufacturers combined and if you add Samsung and Apple together, between them they make more than 100% of all the profit. i.e. the other tablet makers are making a loss on average.

I had some the points that you get from Tesco, and they had a 2 for 1 offer.

[floo]

They come via "Computer Which", a separate publication.

ippy

Which we also get.

[floo]

All that money, all the care taken with the placement of the speakers, expensive speaker cables like suspension bridge cables and you want the equivalent of going to a concert and sitting outside in the bog?

I have the same trouble here at home and my wife loves going to a concert and knows the approximate volume of sound given out by a full orchestra, try to reproduce it at home and it's too loud?

ippy

Fortunately my husband keeps the volume down so I don't hear it, when I am in my own space as I am most of the time. He turns it off if I join him in the same room.

[ippy]

Fortunately my husband keeps the volume down so I don't hear it, when I am in my own space as I am most of the time. He turns it off if I join him in the same room.

I wouldn't want to wait for my wife to go out every time I wanted to listen to a particular piece of music, I've had an ear full of Jools & Ruby Turner, from er inside, she's in NZ now with her brother and for the next three weeks so no volumeistic problems for a while. 

ippy

[Nearly Sane]

I LOVE my Kindle.

My old Kindle is great, my Kindle Fire is greater. Just occasionally I stare at it in wonder and awe.

[floo]

My old Kindle is great, my Kindle Fire is greater. Just occasionally I stare at it in wonder and awe.

Unfortunately the newer Kindles are touch screen, which I find hard to use. I am dreading the demise of my older Kindle.

[Nearly Sane]

Unfortunately the newer Kindles are touch screen, which I find hard to use. I am dreading the demise of my older Kindle.

I find people hard to use because they aren't touchscreen

[jeremyp]

Unfortunately the newer Kindles are touch screen, which I find hard to use. I am dreading the demise of my older Kindle.

I bought a touch screen Kindle to replace my broken normal Kindle, and I have to agree. I'd put it in my bag and get it out again later to find it had selected a random page.

[ippy]

It seems to be common to all of these portable touch screens that you have to be careful how you grab hold of the blooming things, perhaps a firm sliding switch on the side that locks the screen when you want to hand it to someone or put it to one side for a moment before picking it up again, I don't know, but I do know this side of touch screens is a bit of a paine.

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[SusanDoris]

I agree with Rose that a heated throw (John Lewis a penny less than£40 about 18 months ago) I wouldn't be without,but my CCTV, the first thing I bought when I lost my sight is a very useful piece of equipment and in daily use.

My computer plus the software of course, since I could not access e-mail or the internet without it.

I also bought a foot warmer - I could easily manage without it, but it all helps keep the tootsies warm and the circulation good!

[wigginhall]

The Kindle Fire is OK, as the on switch is not a slide, but a push-in thing, so I don't think it could get switched on accidentally, unless you were doing pocket gymnastics.

[ippy]

The Kindle Fire is OK, as the on switch is not a slide, but a push-in thing, so I don't think it could get switched on accidentally, unless you were doing pocket gymnastics.

Wiggi I was more commenting on when you have one of these things switched on even when you know how sensitive they are if someone hands it to you say for looking at photos it's so easy to knock everything off of the screen, this is especially annoying when you hand them to anyone that isn't the least bit familiar with touch screens, it's more annoying than disastrous, there are a lot of times this is a problem but I've only mentioned photos as an example.

ippy

[OH MY WORLD!]

Yes floo, you have told us that you hate music, several times now. I have also told you that you have a disorder in your brain called Musical Anhedonia.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181880/

Calling ippy!! You have no problem with Rhi burning your wood? Or are you Brits buying your wood from Canada? Too funny you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8

[Hope]

Although this doesn't satisfy the first half of the question, it certainly satisfies the second - and this past year especially.  My wife.  She has been a rock on which I can and have leant on many occasions.  Perhaps more than anything, she has not stood for any nonsense and my feeling sorry for myself, which has made me look at the things that happened in 2015 (and the end of 2014) - not necessarily in a good light, but in a positive light.

Sorry if I've slightly tripped up the thread, but I felt it needed saying somewhere in public, even though she'll never read this forum.

[ippy]

Yes floo, you have told us that you hate music, several times now. I have also told you that you have a disorder in your brain called Musical Anhedonia.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181880/

Calling ippy!! You have no problem with Rhi burning your wood? Or are you Brits buying your wood from Canada? Too funny you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8

Yee Hi Woody, like the logging on the river, is that you with the check shirt and the terrible american rounders cap? I suppose we couldn't see their choppers because it's too cold.

Try:  http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnAxeToGrind now that's what we europeans call an axe/chopper

ippy