Hi everyone. It’s time for me to share some of the things I discovered or bought recently that I’ve loved once again. I’m joining Friday Favorites.
1. iOS 16.6. Well, honestly, nothing’s new, but at least a long-standing accessibility bug that had been annoying me for months finally got resolved. Since iOS 16.5, which came out in early May I believe, for whatever reason, the panning buttons on my Braille display, which allow me to scroll, froze in all book-related apps after the first page, allowing me to read only one page and then have to turn VoiceOver off and back on. This made reading on my iPhone basically impossible. So, no shiny new features but yay, I can read again!
2. Books. This brings me to my second favorite thing. Since I can finally read on my iPhone again, I have been doing so a lot. I am currently reading Silenced, Rosie Lewis’ latest foster care memoir.
3. My new blender. I finally took the plunge and ordered a blender off Bol.com last week. I have only made two smoothies with it so far, but it’s good nonetheless. It is a power blender, but not by a high-end brand, because I just don’t have the money for that. Being able to read on my iPhone again, also meant being able to use the collections of smoothie recipes I have on there again.
4. The Water Reminder app for my iPhone. I have had it on my phone several times, but it’s probably Chinese and I at one point deleted all the Chinese-owned apps off my phone for fear of being spied on. Then again, my old headphones that I used with my computer, were a Chinese brand too, so what’s the point? Today, when I looked at the Water Reminder app, I discovered that there are far more drink types you can add than I previously thought. I was looking for “smoothie”, and yay, it’s in there.
5. The Celtic Relaxation Music playlist by SWake on Spotify. I discovered it while searching for Celtic instrumental music playlists. Though Spotify’s own Celtic Instrumental playlist is good too, this one is better.
What have you been lovin’ lately?
A Multitude of Musings 
You asked:
What have you been lovin’ lately?
well:
1. a roof over my head, when it was pourind down with rain yesterday
2. having gone for a long walk with friends from the fitness club and
having a nice chat and I hardly noticed how wetI became!
3. the coffee hot and strong after that walk;
4. changing into dry clothes;
5. singing a Jules de Corte song in a care home;
6. The meal that I prepared with Wiener Schnitsels, a salad and peas and
carrots with a garden herb sauce;
7. a coffee morning in the community center and the fact that I can go
there all by myself.
Roelie
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Those are all great things! What song did you sing? I love the poem about the protagonist being “klerenblind” (“clothes blind”, for my English readers, but it’s only one letter difference from “color blind” in Dutch, and besides, Jules de Corte was blind himself).
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I sang: I really would like to know: why are the mountains so high etc.
Roelie
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Ah, that’s a truly wonderful song indeed.
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