Busyknitter

I have been good all year. Well, except for …………. Oh, and there was always…………….. Hmm, not to mention ………..

Well, whatever. Let’s cut to the chase, here’s what i really, really want in my stocking this year:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/o/ASIN/B000HRLWR6/ref=s9_asin_title_1/203-2868550-9024755

And if that’s not possible, is there any chance of it being on sale at a knock-down price in January?

I think I’ll take regular photos of the view from our bedroom window. It looks nice and calm now, but at 4am a gale was raging and more of the same is forecast for later today

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While T was at respite today I decided to finally try and work out how Mr. Bk’s fancy SLR-lookalike digital camera works. I’ve never done any photography apart from taking snaps but I ahd loads of fun and I really think might try and learn to take some decent pictures. Here are my rubbishy first attempts. Just remember I was only trying to work out what all the buttons and dials do, no fancy pretentions to picture composition or creativity.

First picture; a book case

 And now i know what the macro button does; it’s for close-ups

Most of the photos here have been resized to make them upload onto photobucket easily. But there’s a price to pay in quality of resolution. Here’s the butterfly one in it’s original form

S and I went to the park on a photo safari. Here’s two photos of the same tree, one without flash and one with

S obligingly leapt around the place while I practised snapping with the continuous movement function

Here’s another closeup shot. The idea was to get the conker in focus rather than the adolescent…..

All the gulls buggered off just as I was taking this one

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I wasn’t actually looking for autism stuff, honest. I just happened to come across this link (through http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/ if you must know). The most beautiful blog that I’ve seen in a long while.

 http://genrecookshop.com/

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