Photography is here!

As you may have seen here, I am now the owner of a mac. I've been faffing with some settings over the week, and hope that I have everything set up ready for out short trip - which I intend to test out the machine as a photography assistant.

Generally been a pretty busy week, with site, getting the advert ready for Mellows and work that needed doing to the caravan.

All done now though and ready to go to the hills today and take some photos!!

Photography on the horizon

Not sure why, but I've just not been all that organised with my media feeds the last few months. I seem to concentrate on just one or the other. It dawned on me that I've really neglected Flickr and its one of my favourite for enjoyment and inspiration. The truth is I was just rying to do too much in the time I had available. I realised I was doubling up on information in the RRS feed and my podcasts list. Now the podcasts I can listen to in the car whilst driving, so I cut a few feeds there but a lot from my reader account, which is now much more manageable. This now leaves me time to use twitter, blog and catch up with Flickr (which I also have streamlined a bit)

I think the mac will be getting bought on Wednesday - if I can get away at a reasonable hour.

The Chancers

Was great to get the call from Adrian to say there was an impromptu meeting of the chancers in the Cocked Hat the other day. Good to see everyone that turned up. Mike had another interview, it seems he is pretty much sorted.

Down south again next week, but have arranged to meet up with Trapper on Tuesday night for some grub - sounds like we'll be spoilt for choice as well!

Hoping to arrange a summer meetup

Nates Parent Evening

It was great to hear that my little man is doing well at Pre-school. It seems he is taking after his mum and has a big interest in cooking

Fast weekend

After work on Friday, 18 of us headed over towards Nottingham to go karting. Great night, fast karts, good banter, exciting fun. The track was really fast and the endurance race that we were in, meant that everyone got a lot of driving in.

Saturday I went to watch Derby beat Cardiff 3-1 back to the top of the table (even if its just for today, while we await the Birmingham vs WBA result later).

Not sure what we're doing yet for Mother's Day, we were waiting to see what the weather was going to be like - it had forecast snow, but it seems to be bright and very windy at the moment.

Good night, bad journey

The journey home last night from work was shit. There had been an accident on the motorway (it was still shut this morning) and the surrounding roads were mayhem. Not even TomTom could beat the traffic. I avoided the accident well, but got stuck on a country lane for ages, trying to rejoin the motorway.

The evening got much better, when we went out for Donna's birthday meal at the dial. Food was quite good, and excellent value.

Cough

Been fighting with a tickley cough for what seems like ages now. Just can't seem to shake it - maybe I should go to the doctors and check to see its not an infection?

Another great episode of Heroes last night. I'm loving the way the characters are gradually coming together now. After talking with Mark this morning it suddenly dawned on me what the "power" of the brother is!!

Had another busy weekend. We all went to the choclate bingo yesterday (Tasha was the caller). We managed to raise £400 towards the build pre-school fund. Today we headed over to Nottingham and went to the IKEA and Decathlon superstores. Nate tried on a pair of roller-baldes and just went off! Over the past few weeks I've been amazed by the balance of the kids first on the bikes and now this!!

Morning Woes

I was making good time this morning, TomTom told me I was going to be 5 minutes early for the gate opening, so I drove by the fuel station to get some water for my washer bottle. Firstly, my bonnet wouldn't open, obviously the catch inside was stuck. A few sharp taps on the front and it loosened up for me to open - the release safety catch was also stuck open!! After getting the water the bonnet wouldn't shut - it was jammed open this time.

Thank goodness for my Leatherman - I managed to prise the catch free and secure my bonnet. Must get some freeing spray on that when I get home

Heroes

Wow! I'd heard a a few people on the podcasts talking about how good Heroes was, but wasn't sure whether I could get into another TV show - already watching LOST & 24.

I'm glad I started watching