A follow on to the last post,,, (the camera thing)

“At last the camera problem is solved” and my sanity is restored (what there was of it in the first place) there was a manufacturing fault on the finepix s4000 with the photo cell that caused orbing or halloing hence the poor results, i found all this out on Thursday with a trip to john Lewis's to try out some of the new camera’s but this time i took a memory card with me so i could test them all properly, first came the Nikon p510 “what a beasty” then the two canon’s sx50 and sx500 “good but,,,,,,” and finally the finepix sl300 “my faith has been restored in Fuji” and here’s the proof, firstly the photo that started all this

  

now the finepix sl300 “that's better”

this is my third finepix camera now and I'm as pleased as punch with it the zoom is quite impressive too

from this to this and still keeps most sharpness and colour

pretty good macro for the poor light as well

 

all in all very pleased so thank you all at John Lewis for sorting me out, “oh” and before i forget poppy only went and did it she bought the Nikon beasty, she said it was like love at first sight

 

“steady girl you’ll be eating yorkie bars next”

It’s snow time (in Purton)

what a difference a few days make

 

and camera, same tractor above was with my finepix s4000 this was with poppy’s canon a2300 compact third of the price but twice the photo  

“but anyway that's enough moaning for now” back to the snow (with the canon on all these photo’s)

 

feeding time for the old horse’s

big kid in a silly hat

even with a good covering of snow springs showing it’s on it’s way

and now the reason mother nature really invented snow for, yes kids with pieces of moulded plastic

 

Charlie's first time at sledging and he loved it so much so he’s probably trying to figure out how to fix lights on his sledge now. 

 

“well at the grand old age of 52 i did it”

“I've just joined Flickr”

(not as free as it sound’s only 300mb a month upload) “but ho hum such is life”

but I'll give it ago

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_bagwash/

“So what about my year and a bit off”

the last bit of 2011 and 2012 was all abit of a haze really, went back on the driving for a while but soon realized lorry driving is a mugs game, (here's a tga fronting up to the comfortably numb) just seemed to spend more time sleeping in a cab than my own bed and what with the governments new how to squeeze more blood out of a stone idea called cpc, £300.00 exam teaching you what you’ve done over the past thirty odd years (rip off springs to mind) so back in the draw goes the hgv licence,   

In February came a change of house, now back living i the village i grew up in purton,

and its got its own iron age camp

in fact this little village is steeped in history from ringsbury camp built 50bc, the romans, witch trails, the list goes on,

have been passing the time by trying out the markets again, not too bad but the weather has killed it abit this year gone, was good to see a lot of the old faces again, one downside to all this was the stall got bigger and bigger and the comfortably numb let us know she was too old for all that work by making me fork out for a new gearbox, clutch and drive shaft, so she's now in retirement until spring and spends her days telling the new one all about her glory days,

   

always wanted one and in my opinion the best vans ever made even poppy fell in love at first sight, and with the size of her we’ve now pushed the stall up to 20/30 foot too, so that’s a brief update on the life of  poppy and john and now some randomness i remember  doing this back in the dark and distant days of junior school so i had to try it again “the fun way of growing hyacinth bulbs”

 

(randomness courtesy of the ghost of Billy bagwash)