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Paperchase

Hayley — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:37:46 +0000

The Girl recently commented on my Filofax post with:

“You have Paperchase by your office? Hello my name is jealous”

And yes, when I didn’t work near a Paperchase, I’d have thought it was the greatest thing ever (the nearest ones being in House of Fraser which back in t’day (ok…two years ago) weren’t open past 6pm or in Borders (which was a crap one anyway))

But now? Its a DANGER.

You might convince yourself that you’re going to pop in and ONLY come out with a birthday card for someone. Then somehow between going in and paying, you’ve ended up with ¬£15 of stuff (I’ve done that)

Paperchase (and stationary in general) is an addiction. Its like crack. In fact, crack would be a better addiction to have, because then I wouldn’t end up with piles of pretty notebooks with nothing written in them because

They’re far too pretty to write in
I don’t know what to write in them
I’m a geek, I write everything on my iPhone anyway (or in my Filofax of course)

It tempts me every day with its swish colour changing logo and pretty things in the window. The bastard.

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Organising Myself

Hayley — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:28:00 +0000

I’ve loved Filofaxes since I was a little girl. Who didn’t have a Fun Fax at some point? I loved filling out all the different sections, and for some reason ended up with a bit of an obsession with address books – I’d buy maybe 3 new address books each year (or more) and spend a happy evening copying over all the information that I needed – and deciding who to leave out.

Of course, since I have my iPhone, I don’t need to keep a physical address book, but I find it so much easier to write events and stuff down in a real diary rather than on my iPhone. I can add in little random notes and scribble down to do’s each day (and then feel ashamed if they’re not ticked off quickly)

It seems that having a Filofax is quite a popular thing at the moment – it feels like (almost) everyone is turning away from Moleskines, and turning to an organiser that allows the user to choose how they set it up. (See how Kirsty at Belle Fantaisie and Gala Darling have theirs). This article from the Telegraph goes into a bit more detail as well.

I chose a pocket sized Metropol in Raspberry (oddly, I bought this on the same day Gala published her article saying she had bought the bigger version!). Personally, I’ve got mine like this:

Things I need to get to quickly – my debit and credit cards, business cards, my lift pass and my bus ticket each day.

I have plastic wallets for my timesheet, a zipped one to keep little things safe, and a card holder.

I’ve taken out most of the information sheets because I can Google anything I need.
When I bought my Filofax, it came with a July 10 – Dec 11 calendar, so I took out all of the 2011 stuff for now. The address tabs are gone, with just the numbered ones left, labeled with various things.

I chose the sticky notes pack, and am looking for the mirror (because I’m that vain) to go in. I keep my passport tucked in the back – it’s my only ID, and you never know when you’ll be whisked off somewhere (a girl can dream!)

The Filofax is perfect for the obsessive planner type like myself, as it let’s you see a whole week (for example) at once. It works in any situation that the iPhone wont (obviously not underwater, because the paper would get soggy, but then the phone would explode if I did that anyway). I can scribble, note, doodle – things I can’t do on my phone easily. I can pencil things in and write what didn’t happen.

My Filofax was only £21, and I’ve probably spent another £15 on extras, but its nice to know that if this one starts to look a bit battered, I can easily buy a new one, or if I need more bits of it, its easily refillable (Paperchase is right by my office, which is always a danger!)

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This Week

Hayley — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:10:02 +0000

I finally got my side of the office all sorted out, and its lovely! The downside of course is that I have the office chair that the dog likes to sleep on, which means I often end up with a spaniel in the way.
I’ve sorted out most of the house, so its just the bedrooms (apparently I have too many shoes, handbags and clothes…um, no, no I do not.) to go.
I hate moving.

ThreeMobileBuzz are having a competition where you can win a new phone and a new handbag. I like this idea, and I’m not sure I should be telling you all this, because the less peopel that enter, the more chance I have of winning. And I do need new handbags. Visit www.handbagcompetition.co.uk for more info.

On Wednesday, I met Michaela for some food at Nandos after work. I never had Nandos before last week and now I think I love it. A double chicken burger thing was just a bit too much chicken for me.

Tim has decided to make some questions up to ask people, and first up is Julez! She doesn’t like pineapple. I find that odd.

One of the reasons I love Bristol is that people aren’t afraid to wear what they like. I saw this bloke who (to me at least) looks like a cross between the army bloke (Mike, apparently) from Spaced, and the bloke from Mythbusters that has the huge tache and beret. I know, this is why you read my blog – my amazing descriptive skillz.

Becs has given LayTheTable a gorgeous redesign, and with it, has posted this awesome recipe for Pimms No 1 Cupcakes. Mmm. All that buttercream.

On Saturday, I went to Harvey Nicks to see if I could find a nice bottle of whisky for my dad. (I did, but it cost £2000. Um, no. I ended up getting him a portable hard drive and put a load of pictures on it for him.) I was so tempted by this tea set, it was so Alice in Wonderland-y!

For those who were asking last week, my dress that I wore to the Chap was an old wrap dress I wear for work that I bought from Primark. I love it! Apparently, there is a mini Olympiad at Vintage at Goodwood, although I tried asking them via Twitter and had no response.

I love the window and store decorations they have at Harvey Nicks, and this (incredibly blurry, because I was trying to make out like I was looking at the Shu Uemura eyelashes (ooh they do some pretty ones)) one was one of my favourites. They’re giant rag dolls, wearing outfits from the store. As I came down the escalator, I thought they were Frank Sidebottom heads!

I love how grafitti in this city is used to pretty up any building.

I’ve reinstalled Skype, so for anyone who wants to contact me, or only had my old user name, I can be contacted on hayley.constantine. I know. Its so unusual.

To end with, here is a kittin riding around on a tortoise. AMAZING.

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Hello MiFi v2

Hayley — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:22:44 +0000

So you might have seen recently that I was trialling the MiFi from Three to see how I got on. My general response was that I liked the idea of it, but the design of the item was a bit meh. I don’t like buttons that I have to jab in a certain order, I like to turn something on and for it to Just Work.

An hour after that post published, Michelle at ThreeMobileBuzz got back in contact with me to offer me a trial of the next version of the MiFi.

Its a lot nicer looking – white plastic only looks good on Apple products (thats why I didn’t go for a white Dell netbook – it just looked wrong!) and gives much more information on the screen.

I’ll be giving this little MiFi a workout to see just how good it is, and will report back (of course. You lucky lucky people)

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Chap Olympiad

Hayley — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:16:57 +0000

Five years ago, I read a copy of The Chap at Alec and Suz’s (so long ago that we were back at uni. I am old ) There was an advert for the Chap Olympiad, which sounded like an amazing event. Unfortunately I couldn’t go, partly because at the time I was about to start a new job with a small company in Chester (oh my life, who knew Crest was so long ago?) and partly because to get from Chester to London would cost approximately five billion pounds. Not even a joke.
So we got up at ridiculous o’clock on Saturday, and I faffed with my hair to try and get it as lovely as how it was done at the Aussie party (I managed it slightly, but by the time we had gotten to the venue, it had flopped slightly. Sigh. I am not used to London hair)

Here’s the programme for the event. Since you probably can’t see that properly, I scanned it and uploaded to Flickr. There were so many excellent events, but because we had decided that we wanted to leave London by 8pm, we only stayed for the first half.

First up though, was the lighting of the Olympic pipe. No silly torches here!

Of course, what afternoon in a park is complete without a few pitchers of Pimms?

Here’s the first event, the martini relay. There were three tables set up, the first with glasses, shakers and ice, the second with gin and vermouth, and the third with olives. It was a relay race so the contestants had to run between the tables. However because this was the sort of event where rules were just guidelines, you had people sauntering up to the alcohol table and swigging the gin from the bottle. Good work I think.

More chaps making a martini

The crowd were the most amazing though. Almost* everyone had made some sort of effort in dressing up in style, and there were some amazing outfits and hair dos!

Setting up for the cucumber discus. I’m not sure I understood this game fully, but you had to throw a cucumber sandwich on a china plate and points were awarded for the distance between the sandwich and the plate (when they inevitably separated during the throw)

Here is someone gearing up for their throw…

And during their throw:

I’ve tagged the flying cucumber sandwich and plate on this picture on Facebook, but they’re pretty much in the centre of the image. Beautiful. People were disqualified for using cling film for keeping the sandwich on the plate, but all sorts of things were using – including popping the plate inside a Nazi uniform hat!

Here is the butler with a giant tube of mustache wax for the tug of hair – which was basically a tug of war but with a big (fake!) handlebar mustache.

During the interval, this “comedian”, Paul Foot, came on to entertain us. I said “comedian”, but there were only about 10 people who were actually paying attention to him. Honestly, if you see an event with him on, just avoid, avoid, avoid

Here’s Alex and I, in what I think is the first picture of the two of us ever. God thats smug.

So once the “comedian” disappeared off the stage, they started playing some swing type music, and people were dancing at their picnic baskets, then all of a sudden were up on the stage. Yes, thats a lady in a Nazi uniform. She was called Heidi Heil, and instead of a swastika, there was the logo of the Chap. She was very pantomime-y. camping it up all over the place.

Soon after this, we left, and hunted down some food. Of course, we found the nearest Wagamamas. We were slightly over dressed.

This is Nathan’s “I’m going to moider you with only a chopstick” look.

We got on the train home, and the boys produced a bottle of champagne which they had purchased earlier and tried to smuggle back into the event, using the excuse that it was Grannys Christmas present! Unsurprisingly, the security weren’t impressed with this excuse! We drank it from plastic glasses, and posed a bit:

We played Scrabble on the iPad (such a good thing to travel with!) and drank tea on the way out.

I had a really lovely day with three of my favourite people ever, and can’t wait to go again next year!

If you’d like to read some other versions of events, then Fleur de Guerre and Retro Chick have also blogged about it, which are well worth a read.

*Almost everyone dressed up, but there were quite a lot of professional photographers who just rocked up to the event wearing jeans and a t-shirt. This was a bit annoying, as it wasn’t difficult to pop a shirt and trousers on. These photographers would get in the way of everyone else as well, which was pretty irritating. I don’t mind people wanting to take pictures to potentially sell on later on, but please respect the people who have paid to get into the event and want to take part as much as possible!

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FUTURETRAIN

Hayley — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:20:05 +0000

Some of you may have seen my excited tweets a while ago when I got on a train to go to Bath, and found that there were tv screens in the backs of the seats. I named this train FUTURETRAIN.

Annoyingly, there was no pricing schemes, so I forgot about it. However, when we went to London for the Aussie Angels Mad Hatters Tea Party, we ended up on a FUTURETRAIN again. I love FUTURETRAIN. It costs £1.50 for an hours viewing, or £3.50 for “unlimited viewing” (But only for the length of your journey)

LOOK AT IT. FUTURETRAIN LOVES YOU.

I don’t know why FUTURETRAIN must always be written in capitals. Mostly to show how important it is.

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This Week

Hayley — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:26:54 +0000

I’m aiming to make this a reasonably regular thing – mostly because its not that bloody hard to take pictures is it? *glares at self*

Anyway.

I took a few random snaps at the Aussie Luscious Long party that I went to last weekend on my iPhone, but forgot to actually put them up anyway. Lazy. So here is a small glimpse into the event – a Cosmo and some of the food. Mmm.

When I got home on Sunday, I took out my beautiful (but by this time very messy) up-do and was left with nicely curly hair. This never happens! I may have to try experimenting a bit more with the mousse when tying my hair up – it left my hair soft, not crunchy.

On Tuesday, the Krispy Kreme drive thru opens up in Avonmeads. We couldn’t wait that long, so I picked up a dozen variety donuts and took them into work the next day. It was SO warm at Paddington station – I stepped out of the Krispy Kreme shop and felt a rush of hot air hit me! Some of the donuts melted, but they were still very delicious the next day.

On Wednesday, I finally tried Nandos for the first time. Oh. My. Life. DELICIOUS. I met with Abbi, Kate, Amanda (and her boyfriend) so Abbi and Kate could get one last chance to tell us about their holiday to New York before actually going for a week. They’ve been so irritating with it, they’ve even got a hash tag on Twitter (called, #newyorkwankers)

On the way back from the Chap Olympiad yesterday (which I shall blog about soon!) we opened a bottle of champagne (Verve Cliquot, because the Wife is such a fussy cow, she wont drink anything else.) and drank it from plastic glasses in First Class on the train. Yes, we are very snobby sometimes.

My hair here is quite messy, since I did it in a bit of a rush at 9am, and this pic was taken 12 hours later, but for my first go at attempting to copy the style that Zara gave me last weekend, I’m pretty pleased with it! Alex was a little bit too excited about having a side parting in his hair, I’m not sure about it!

This week, I have lots of tidying to do as we have moved some of the stuff around to make better use of the space. This of course means all the boxes of crap we carefully hid have reappeared. Damn! (On the bright side, I did find all my Aussie hair styling stuff, which helped a lot yesterday!)

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Goodbye MiFi

Hayley — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:29:30 +0000

So my two (and a bit) week trial of the MiFi unit from Three is over. I’m going to miss it actually. Its been so handy to have it in my bag and to just turn on when I wanted to get online (hello job applications at lunch – things are just so much easier on your own computer!) and it seems as fast as the wifi at home.

Well, when its in a good signal area.

And theres the main problem with the MiFi device that I trialed.

Heres the device with all the lights happily lit up (forgive the slight wobblyness – I was on a train!)

But after a few seconds, they all go off. Which is a bit useless really, because if (for example) you’re on a train, then theres bound to be little patches of areas that you will just get no signal. But you wont know this until the browser (or whatever you’re doing) times out. Pretty annoying really.

The other thing that I wasn’t so keen on with the MiFi was that you turn the device on, wait for it to stuff and then you have to press the connect button. Why? If I’m turning on the device, then I want to use it!

I’m told that these problems have been addressed with the arrival of the new MiFi unit, which is making it a bit more tempting towards purchasing one.

However. I was lent this device by Michelle at ThreeMobileBuzz which meant that everything was all set up for me. Three unfortunately does not have the best customer service, something which Alex found a month or so ago when he bought his iPad and after switching it the next day for the 3G one, he chose to go with Three as he has been an active customer for quite a long time. He had such trouble just trying to get them to put the iPad SIM account onto his old account!

I love the idea of the MiFi, and the signal/service was pretty decent wherever I used it (O2 always crapped out on me between Reading and London, but Three held up reasonably well with little black spots) but its a shame that other networks with better customer service don’t offer this device!

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Cosmos with Cinders

Hayley — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:09:59 +0000

So how did you spend your Saturday night? I spent mine drinking cocktails and swishing about with Cinderella and Snow White. Completely normal.

Zoe invited me to be one of her guests to the luscious long party which was held at Avalon in Shoreditch, London and I happily accepted. I hopped on the (beautifully) air conditioned train and sped off to London where I spent far too long dealing with tube closures. Ick. I eventually found the tube, and walked to the hotel – walking into the lobby was so lovely as it was freezing cold with the air con! After trying to sort out the mix up with the rooms (Crowne Plaza Shoreditch, your staff suck)

I eventually made it to my room (loving the copy of Marie Claire on the bedside table, a nice touch. Not sure if thats standard in Crowne Plaza rooms!) and flopped down on the bed before remembering that because of all the delays since getting to London, I only had an hour or so to get ready. Zoe had had the same problems as I did with tubes and bookings, so didn’t really get to the hotel till half 6 – the event was due to start at 7!

Because one of Zoe’s friends was unable to come, and then the replacement guest was unable to come at the last minute, she dragged James along who intended to have a quiet night in the hotel room but instead ended up surrounded by girls as he was invited to join us in the party.

I knew that I was going to ask for a 40′s hair style that I could easily recreate as next weekend we were going to the Chap Olympiad. Zara, who did my hair last time, put it up in two victory rolls and then pinned up the back. She explained what she was doing so well, I’m going to attempt to do it myself!

We were pretty shattered from our fun times with public transport earlier, so we had a glass or two of wine before bed.

Next morning, Zoe, James and I met for breakfast upstairs

The view was pretty epic (this was taken from my seat far away from the window, apologies!)

Zoe and I swapped pictures (which used to be such a typical habit when James and I lived together at uni, everyone swapping about memory cards!) and I left them to it. I knew the Tube was still having issues, so I headed over to Paddington, and mooched in Starbucks (the only place it seemed in Paddington with plug sockets and air con!)

I had such a fun time, thank you Zoe and of course Emma at Uncover Aussie!

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And You’re Not Gonna Reach My Telephone

Hayley — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:09:41 +0000

I think I’ve mentioned before that I love old fashioned styled telephones. I have a beautiful cream one (with proper bells in it!) but have moved house and no longer have a land line. I’ve tried to find a box to plug the phone into that would allow me to use it with my iPhone (like a Bluetooth headset thing? Does such a thing exist?) but the only thing I found was about 3 times the cost of my iPhone. No chance.

At the same time, I’m sure you’ve heard of the problems with the iPhone 4, and how holding it a certain way will affect the signal strength (or perceived signal strength)

Perhaps this phone will solve both of my issues

These phones cost about $200 each (and $60 to ship to the UK) but I’m still quite tempted. I even love that there appears to be an app to turn the phone into a rotary dial!

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Basket Case

Hayley — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:20:23 +0000

Whilst planning for our day trip to London next weekend for The Chap Olympiad, I started thinking about baskets – or more specifically, picnic baskets. How cute would it be, to turn up with a little picnic, and a few jugs of Pimms (this is obviously a magical picnic basket which can hold ANYTHING but doesn’t weigh anything)

Here’s a few of the baskets that I’m thinking about.

The Luxury Hamper is £150 from John Lewis, but I bet it would be proper cutlery, glass glasses and real plates. Unfortunatly £150 is a bit out of my price range.

So the Optima Traditional Picnic for Four is probably a bit of out my price range, also £150, but comes with random munchies and wine. Wine is important.

The Four person wicker picnic basket from Debenhams is £60 and possibly my favourite out of all of the baskets I’ve looked at. Theres even two bits to pop a few bottles of wine in. Or gin. Mmm, gin.

The Green and beige four person picnic back pack is just £32 from Debenhams, and much more practical but just not as pretty or indeed Chap-esque.

If anyone who loves me enough to buy me a picnic basket is reading this, I’d like the third one please.

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Newfangled Internet

Hayley — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:04:08 +0000

Whilst browsing though the latest copy of The Chap, I spotted this advert:

I’d like the phrase “newfangled Internet” to be used a hell of a lot more please. Or maybe just “newfangled“. Ta.

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Snippets

Hayley — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:17:17 +0000

Here’s some random bits of information that don’t really warrent their own posts.

I’ve finally finished moving house! (Yes, I am the only person who can take a month to move a few miles. Dear lord.) On Saturday, I hired a van and my very awesome (and single, ladies, if you’re interested) friend Ruffle drove it and helped me pack and unpack. Everything is in the garage, which is pretty useless when I need a mixing bowl at 10pm. I’ve had some tips for my aunts though about hiding stuff under the bed – brilliant!

One of my old colleagues, Charlotte, has her blog at Bumble Cakes – everything looks so yummy! Go read her blog and follow her

This van pulled up next to my bus at Old Market yesterday morning and the dog standing out the window made me laugh. He managed to stay like that as well when the van hurtled round the roundabout. Cute!

The Girl, (who I’ve mentioned previously as a blog to read) has started a new blog, which can be found at Just Me. Go follow her because she’s ace.

I’m so excited to be going to another Aussie Tribe Party, this time as a guest of Zoe who is a luscious long girly. Eee! I have no idea what to wear though – its fairy tale themed. New dress time on Friday after work I think!

I baked some yummy chocolate cakes with chocolate icing for work, using the recipe from the Hummingbird Bakery (via Afeitar) which is why I needed a mixing bowl at 10pm!

The Saturday after, we are heading to London again, for The Chap Olympiad. I’m looking forward to it, as Alex and I will be going with the Wife and the Lord. What what tally ho and all that. I need an outfit for that as well! Shame.

The Cosmo Blog Awards were launched last week, as you may have seen on hundreds of blogs (or is that just my Google Reader?)
I’m going to hop on the bandwagon, so if you love me (and you know you do ), click here and tell Cosmo why! I think my blog falls into the lifestyle genre mostly, but what do you think?

On Saturday, we passed the new Krispy Kreme location at Avonmeads. It has a FREAKING DRIVE THRU which makes me very excited. VERY. I wish we were lucky enough to get a box of free donuts. Sob.

Soooooo, whats going on with you guyyyyyyyyz?

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I Want To Ride My Bicycle

Hayley — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:10:38 +0000

I know that I need to get much fitter – not necessarily lose loads of weight (although it would be nice!) but to be a lot more toned up overall.

The boy, ever helpful, has suggested that I start cycling to and from work. Whitchurch to Clifton is about 5 miles, with at least two rather large hills in between. No thanks.

But! If I had a job that was a bit closer to home, I think I could manage this cycling lark. Especially if I had one of these lovely Pashley bicycles:

The Princess Classic – £495

The Princess Sovereign – £595

The Britannia – this one is probably my favourite – £575

Just need to find £600 now…

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iPhone 4 – So What?

Hayley — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:57:34 +0000

Last Thursday, I managed to get the boy dressed and out the door before 7am. Why? Because he had decided that he wanted to get an iPhone 4. He’d sold his HTC Desire the week before, so had been without a phone for a week. Let me just say, this is possibly the most annoying thing he could have done. Without a phone, I couldn’t call him to say “I’m here, can you pick me up?”. Couldn’t text to ask him to pop to the shop. Frustrating. All I could do was send him an email and hope that he was paying attention to his iPad.

I wasn’t that fussed to be honest, and had only decided the day before that I would at least try to get a phone. I went to Vodafone at lunch the day before and got them to do a credit check, and gathered up any proof of residence. You know, the sort of thing an overly organised person does.

We got to Cabot Circus Apple Store at about half 7 and joined the back of the queue which was snaking about outside Brasserie Blanc. There was probably about 30 people in the reserved queue, and maybe 60 in the “walk in” queue. The store had opened earlier than the 8am advertised time to allow the reserved people (such as my old colleagues Nick and Martin) to get their phone just that little bit earlier than expected. There was some problem with the system where it couldn’t sell SIM free phones (which annoyed me – a very unApple thing to do I thought!)

By quarter past 8, I was giving up. The queue hadn’t moved at all in the hour we had been there, and even the people who had reordered were left waiting. I left Alex in the queue, and headed towards Starbucks. On the way was the Vodafone store, open and looking pretty empty. I thought I’d pop in and ask on the off chance they had the iPhone4 in stock.

They did, and could even give an estimated waiting time of how long we’d be waiting before we saw someone. I resisted the urge to hug the manager Tony, got tickets for the queue and ran back to the Apple queue. I told Alex I’d reserved two iPhones for us so we walked back at a bit of a pace to Vodafone.

Signing up for my contract was nice and easy. I handed over a reference number for the credit check, and my PAC code. Signed the contract, grabbed my new toy and ran to get a bus. I was at my desk an hour after I’d gone into Vodafone – I dread to think how late I’d have been if I’d had the patience to stay at Apple!

So here’s where the bad bit started. Porting your number from network A to network B typically takes 24 hours. When I’ve ported numbers before, the new network gives the new phone a temporary number so you can still use it.
Sadly, Vodafone did neither. I had a text the next day saying that the number would port on Monday but no temporary number was allocated to me in the meantime. Which was pretty frustrating, since an iPhone is pretty dull without a connection. So I had this lovely shiny new toy but couldn’t do much with it. (OK, so I could do a bit with it, since I also received on the same day a MiFi to trial with “our” iPad from the guys at 3MobileBuzz, but that’s not the point!) Thankfully, the number port was slightly quicker than expected and by 1pm on Monday, I could finally use my phone!

So whats so good about it? The screen. It’s so crisp to read things on the screen, which is especially noticeable when reading blogs and Twitter I’ve found. Its quick to flick between apps (even those not “optimised” for iOS4).
The camera – well, my iPhone 3G thought it was good before, but now its hanging its head in shame. I’ve used the camera so far to mostly take photos of adverts in the newspaper – and the text is still legible. I’ve not yet tried out the video, or the editing, but it looks pretty decent – to be honest, its not something I would see myself using!
FaceTime (oh yes, the iPhone’s irritating auto correction applies to words you’ve not properly capitalised) isn’t something I would probably use very much – I don’t really like using the phone, let alone having to send a video of me! So far, I have only had a few FaceTime calls with Alex – while we were in the same house because it requires wifi (I wonder if it would work with the MiFi? Hmm…) Unfortunately, on one of those calls, he thought it would be a good idea to moon me.

Overall, I’d say that the iPhone 4 is a massive jump from the iPhone 3 – its just so much quicker to do anything now! Part of the reason that I chose to upgrade on launch day was because I had “upgraded” my iPhone 3 to iOS4 on Monday, and was getting annoyed with the slowness of the phone. Would I recommend it? Of course – but then I would usually recommend an iPhone to most people!

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