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Might be giving out the answer if I added anything to it...  But, follow the path to "Robin"
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Perchant ( getting desperate now ) 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Nope.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Answer please ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I've edited my post to include the solution now.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Hastings is Hercule Poirot's sidekick.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Might have needed a slight Christie reference in the clue, perhaps?
Good luck with the theme from that tomorrow ... could be interesting.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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BTW: You are up again tomorrow!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I know This one took me a long time - no idea what to post tomorrow!
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Don't get the Robin Hastings bit
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Hastings is Poirot's sidekick.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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I think it would have been a really good clue had you gone with "sidekick" rather than "robin" - that's one layer of indirection too many, i.e. the literal should have one degree of separation from the answer.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I agree
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Most of the clue is fine, but I would suggest that expecting us to look for a random sidekick from "Robin" seems a little bit too abstracted.
I think if you have just replaced "Robin" with "Sidekick" it would have worked better, and still been a good challenge too.
Anyway, just my own personal suggestions, take it or leave it 
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All comments and suggestions are welcome -I'm but a novice at this 
You did get to "sidekick" though - just saying!
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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How do you get to Poirot from Robin? 
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The solution was Hastings, not Poirot
Batman's sidekick -> Robin
Poirot's sidekick -> Hastings
Anyway... looks like my first attempt at this wasn't a success 
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Yes, but that is virtually impossible to guess. Sidekick perhaps, but how does anything in the clue make you think of Poirot?
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So, here's my summer challenge.
* I can NOT take the photos out of the albums ("scan them stackwise" is not an option)
* I bought a camera tripod and thought about camera-copying them
Can you recommend me a good app that is capable of correcting those photos? I will use my Galaxy S10e, and the camera is more than good enough, but I heard of apps the can "document copy" things, so they correct rotation and bending. When you make a photo of a sheet of paper, it looks like a scanned document and not like a photo of a document.
I tried to search a bit but couldn't find "the one".
It's a summer project for me, I have to digitalize about 2000 photos, my daughter will help me, and I have no fear to do some manual correcting or resizing on 2k files. I have time over the entire August (YES I have a loooooooong vacation this year! You are allowed to be envious )
How would you approach that project?
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Use a scanner?
Apps that I have used for these purposes do turn the photo into a scanned copy (e.g. CamScanner), and the free version adds a watermark on the pictures.
To have a good quality scan you'll also need the help of photoshop.
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Mike Barthold wrote: I will use my Galaxy S10e, and the camera is more than good enough
imho, this will not result in usable quality pictures. Assuming you can take album pages out and lay them "flat," I second the motion to use a flatbed scanner.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Paint.net has all you need. If it doesn't then one of the multitude of add-ins does. ...and it's free!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yes I use paint.net for years --- this is my program to edit them after photographing.
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Ok. I use a flatbed scanner (it can do slides as well using an adapter).
Just don't look at the scanning light when the lid is open, as it will need to be when scanning photos still in albums. I just hold the album in place, look away from it and click the button.
This would probably be a lot quicker than setting up for each photo from a camera - although the scanning takes longer you will get a better result in my opinion with no fear of reflections or light interference corrupting the image. I have done hundreds like this myself - it's still on-going, my wife is a shutterbug!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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