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No more scurrying for YOU mister. Chalk up another one for the exterminator of the family Muridae. A gift outside the bedroom door, a curtailed "jumping on dad with bonus shouting" session as he was excited, and off after more. Ah bless.
Strolled past the emporium of all things camera'y, which is normally a dangerous thing; went in to get the sensor on Bosscam2 hoovered out, it sucks in dust like a jet engine. While I was there, I was offered a go with a second hand toy and I can now say I've now strapped the most ridiculous and silly thing I've ever seen onto the front of my camera and even if I'd have had £1800 knocking about which I haven't, it would have been classed as silly. For the tecchy out there... 400 mm fixed telephoto lens; f2.8. This is a professional sports lens, six grand new and is just extreme, silly and for a camera'y bloke, really quite tempting. Basically a long telephoto; with a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge lens at the end to let in ALL the light in the world to give the sillyshort shutter speeds that I like. Even for me, shooting by hand would be impossible, the thing weighs a ton... a serious piece of glass and metal. Heavy monopod required for everything. Transport by backpack required to get it to where the action is. Tempting though. Y'know, sometimes poverty protects you! The lads in there are trying to convince me that it's time to upgrade Bosscam2 to a EOS40... not quite sure I see the need just yet, tempting as it is to have another shiny new toy.
And this morning, kippers are the order of the day. Or smoked codheads at least, considering that the old Birds Eye factory burned down last night in a very big way... apparently a fine and jolly conflagration... I'm wondering if I should rename the locals. Wandered down with a pack of sausages, a toasting fork and a camera but by the time I got told about it, everything was damping down. Excitement (and BBQ'ing option) was small. Damn. Actually considering hosting a small one here next month.... do autumn barbies suck? I'm not sure, I've never done one. Is my barbie still actually functional under that tarp in the garden? Can I do enough housework in a month to get this place presentable for real human guests? Only the shadow knows......
Strolled past the emporium of all things camera'y, which is normally a dangerous thing; went in to get the sensor on Bosscam2 hoovered out, it sucks in dust like a jet engine. While I was there, I was offered a go with a second hand toy and I can now say I've now strapped the most ridiculous and silly thing I've ever seen onto the front of my camera and even if I'd have had £1800 knocking about which I haven't, it would have been classed as silly. For the tecchy out there... 400 mm fixed telephoto lens; f2.8. This is a professional sports lens, six grand new and is just extreme, silly and for a camera'y bloke, really quite tempting. Basically a long telephoto; with a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge lens at the end to let in ALL the light in the world to give the sillyshort shutter speeds that I like. Even for me, shooting by hand would be impossible, the thing weighs a ton... a serious piece of glass and metal. Heavy monopod required for everything. Transport by backpack required to get it to where the action is. Tempting though. Y'know, sometimes poverty protects you! The lads in there are trying to convince me that it's time to upgrade Bosscam2 to a EOS40... not quite sure I see the need just yet, tempting as it is to have another shiny new toy.
And this morning, kippers are the order of the day. Or smoked codheads at least, considering that the old Birds Eye factory burned down last night in a very big way... apparently a fine and jolly conflagration... I'm wondering if I should rename the locals. Wandered down with a pack of sausages, a toasting fork and a camera but by the time I got told about it, everything was damping down. Excitement (and BBQ'ing option) was small. Damn. Actually considering hosting a small one here next month.... do autumn barbies suck? I'm not sure, I've never done one. Is my barbie still actually functional under that tarp in the garden? Can I do enough housework in a month to get this place presentable for real human guests? Only the shadow knows......
posted by Fred the Singing Bandit at 9:50 am
3 Comments:
I want an invite prove you don't burn something lol.
Well I went to a bbq during the summer months (you know when we had the autum weather) we still managed to get bbq'd food and it was quite fun, although some people did take things a little to far and started having water fights and even brown sauce fights such silliness! But I am sure you would invite people of a different calaber! :)
S'funny, I went to one just the same.... wouldn't happen here. We're posh and only have mango chutney fights. But just in case, I'm hiding the brown sauce....
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