His Royal Dryness, The Duke of Cork

I recently searched online to see if there was a simple way to remove ads (aka "Promoted Tweets") from Twitter.  I use Twitter on my laptop and using the app on my phone. Some sites suggest using a third party add-on for Chrome or Firefox.  That's great, if you use these, browsers, trust the add-on and only ever use Twitter on your PC.  Some suggest different apps to access Twitter, but again, I don't want another app, and what do I do on my laptop.  There has to be a better way, and there is! The answer is simple, it uses Twitter itself.  It requires minimal effort.  It works on your phone and your PC's browser (whatever you use).  What's the answer? Use a list.  It's that simple.  Create a list in Twitter.  Then put everyone you follow on this list.  Then, instead on using Twitter's regular feed, just look at the list.  All the updates are on there, and guess what?  There are no promoted tweets.  No adverts.  No suggestions of who to follow.  Y

The quick answer is "no" and if you do use directory enquiries, you could be ringing fraudsters. Most people are familiar and wary of scammers cold calling and telling you they are from Microsoft or somewhere similar and offering to aid you in fixing your computer. We know that once they're on your PC, they'll try and take money from you for their "services", and also try to hack any banking or credit card details stored on the computer. This week, we've found that if you call 118118 and ask for Yahoo! (for instance if you're struggling to access your account) the number they give you could put you straight through to the fraudsters.   The above image is from 118118.com and is the same number given out by 118118 if you call. Yes, there are other Yahoo! numbers, and you may get one of them. However, we had a client who phoned 118118 to get the number for Yahoo!, then called the freephone number they gave him. Half an hour later, they'd remot

Really enjoyed our trip to Corvara, Italy on the Sella Ronda, part of the Dolomiti SuperSki region.  I had been told about the horses that pull you along by tow rope instead of use a ski lift or drag lift.  I thought I'd share the video. I had thought that the horses were on part of the Sella Ronda, but they're actually after you ski down the Hidden Valley (Lagazuoi) and drag you for about 10 minutes to a "normal" ski drag lift up the hill before you ski back down into San Cassiano.

I thought I'd put some notes down about Verona airport, Italy, as you don't seem to be able to review airports on TripAdvisor.  Maybe if you have a choice, it might help you to decide. We flew there to go skiing.  On arrival, we were told that the bags might be a bit delayed coming through to the baggage carousel, which is fair enough. The signs said that our luggage would be on carousel 4.  Above carousel 4 our flight wasn't listed, but it was listed above carousel 3. We stuck with carousel 4 and one suitcase came off, so thought we were fine.  Then a rumour went round that some cases were coming off carousel 3.  I went to check it out and found another bag of ours.  Then one came off 4.  We were left with one bag to collect, so we kept going between the two. After about 45 minutes, there weren't many people left in the baggage area and our last bag was on a trolley they'd manually hauled in from the plane and dumped in the corner. < > On the way