Chris wanted an iPad for her birthday present. This device will improve accessibility. She has long experienced vision difficulties with the iPhone and even her Macbook Pro. At the Apple store it was obvious that the iPad has much superior visual accessibility and 4G connectivity. I think she's pleased with it. I'm very envious.
We went for lunch at the Royal Exchange Theatre cafe. It is a quiet large space. The theatre is in the middle of the old dealing floor of the Manchester stock exchange. My uncle John Leach was a jobber for Dillworths on this floor and was there on the day it closed. The trading board is still there (below) and shows the closing prices on the last day of trading. John Leach was a Manchester cotton man through and through. His family owned mills in Shaw. His father was mayor of Shaw. Then came the massive crash of 1929 and he lost everything. His younger son John worked his way up, from pushing a handcart of cloth pieces round the warehouses, then onto to Dillworths when de-mobbed from six years in the Sudan, and then managing the Hawthorn in Oldham, for Haigh Textiles. It was the last steam-powered mule spinning mill in the world, prolly.
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