Pinnace

A group of three fishermen were attempting to launch their boat from it's car trailer. Being a bloke, I'm an expert at many things and settled down on a comfortable rock to enjoy the spectacle. It was obvious that the trailer was too far short of the end of the slipway, the water wasn't anywhere nea...

We've been in our new home around six months and last Sunday was the first real hot day we've experienced. What a difference! Kids on bikes, scooters, skateboards and skates, couples, singles and groups, canoeists, model boats, yachts, dinghies, even swimmers, dogs and all shapes and sizes of too mu...

Well, not really, but do they ever sleep? Out for a wander at 04.10 - no, don't ask - and I found myself drifting along the local lakeside. Spotted from some distance, they came up and shadowed me all the way until I got too spooked and made a sharp left turn for the sea front instead. Clearly on th...

My computer ate my camera card! It's the second time of happening and, yes, I did change the card after the first instance in case that was at fault. Both times it happened I'd taken world beating shots, of course, and had reviewed most of them in camera. When I pulled the card(s) and stuffed them i...

Cats are funny folk. I know all the locals, who belongs and who doesn't and I'm fairly sure they all know me, I get "shouted at" from quite a distance some days and ignored from quite close up just as often. There's some who go out of their way to be spoken to and those who are far to busy...

Been out and about today, not a lot, but for me, a fair bit. My feet hurt now. Not in a sore feet soak 'em in a bowl of hot water sort of way, more like they've had a bit of a squeezing from the old troll under the bridge. The bones hurt. Hmm.... I reckon those Hobbits had it easy, big hairy feet, n...

It's all a bit damp and miserable, the weather's not much cop either. Seems that if you do go out - down here at least - it's either blowing a gale and wet or wet and blowing a gale. May the gods bless the first manufacturer to have produced base layer clothing. And there must be a law which states ...

I got given a prime lens - secondhand so it's all about recycling and stuff - and the adaptor finally arrived yesterday so I was let loose to try it all out today. The sun was shining, the tide was out, dogs of all varieties were running around ( who would own a husky in this country? And why? It ...

Here's the thing, when you realise, or should it be, when you find yourself so cold you drop the lens cap which you couldn't feel anyway as you forgot your gloves (nice, thick, thermally ones) and the wind bowls it away over the cliff edge, you didn't stop to tie your boot laces because you where in...

Got taken to our local - and very pleasant - wethies for dinner ( chicken tika for those who simply have to know) and am now chillin wid a glass o lager while listening to de vibes on Radio 2. Ha, old farts know how to do it in style. Probably get an extra codiene for a good night's sleep into next ...