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Author: jane
Over the weekend ordered
Over the weekend I ordered some more memory cards for my camera. I originally wanted a SmartDisk Flash Trax but I couldn’t really afford the £399 price tag. So, I opted for some more memory cards instead. I’m very impressed with the service I got. I ordered 3 cards on Sunday afternoon, an 1GB IBM Microdrive from JetMedia and 2 256 MB SanDisk cards from Widget. Both of my orders arrived today so I’m pretty impressed.
planning to take part
I’m planning to take part in the May Day Project on Saturday, so expect to see me waving my camera around a lot :-).
Brighton Festival started today
Brighton Festival started today, and the first event was the Children’s Parade. Lots of local schools all decide on themes and make figures and things and parade through Brighton and onto the seafront. It was a really windy day, so some of the larger objects being carried were a bit unruly.
It was my birthday
It was my birthday yesterday, and I had a very nice day indeed thank you. Richard bought me lots of photography toys (a new tripod, and a couple of books [1],[2]) which will keep me out of mischief, and I got some lovely presents from other friends and family.
We went out for dinner at the Regency Restaurant, which was pretty good, although La Fourchette is still my favourite seafood restaurant. We then headed off to meet Jeremy for a drink at the 3JBs, probably the last time I’ll ever go there as their customer service was appaling – we ordered glasses of wine, which tasted like vinegar to us, and they then refused to replace them. All in all a good birthday (although less surprises than last year :-).
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Yesterday had text from
Yesterday I had a text from Heather saying that she was going to be appearing in Hove Crown Court (she’s a barrister) and were we around for a coffee. I was and so after she’d done her barrister stuff, Heather and I met up for a coffee, and then we toddled off to Lucy’s for lunch (where Richard joined us) and then we decided to head to the Grand for a bottle of champagne before Heather had to head off back to London. One of those “it just happened” kind of afternoons. Lovely.
When we were at
When we were at my folks house at the weekend I collected a couple of old cameras to play with. One is a Baldawerk Baldixette and the other is a Coronet Conway Popular Box Camera. I’ve tracked down some reasonably priced film from 7dayshop and so I guess I’ll be experimenting with film and digital over summer.
We spent Easter weekend
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We spent Easter weekend in Hull visiting my parents, and managed to fit in quite a lot – a Hull City match (we won!), some touristy stuff as well as setting Dad up with a new PC. As usual I took heaps of photos, so I’ll get around to processing them sometime soon.
Update: The photos are now up here.
We went round to
We went round to see Paul and Tess’s new house last night, and very lovely it is too. We were in no rush, and they had no other plans, so we ordered a takeaway curry and sat and had a very lovely meal. Now we don’t order takeaway food very often as we often find the quality suffers, but the Nishat Tandoori had some lovely dishes (it does Goan and Indian so there were a few interesting variations). And what is even better, is that it’s only a couple of streets away from our house. Smashing.
Congratulations to Karl He
Congratulations to Karl. He ran the marathon in 5hrs 26 minutes yesterday. He says he’s got some really lovely blisters to show for his day, and can hardly walk. But he did it. Well done! You can still sponsor him here and help the British Lung Foundation. There’s a photo of him with his medal here.