You can tell when it’s been a really bad day photographically when the POD is flowers, especially cut flowers. These ones are really quite pretty, but they still tell a tale. It was a dismal day for taking photos. Hardly any light from mid morning until night. It rained all day and it was cold. Not much to get up for really, but I did. I made the superhuman effort and got up and went out.
I went to meet Fred who has even more to moan about than me. He’s had to endure the pain of a failed tooth extraction and then the added misery of oral surgery to remove the root. I don’t even think he got his tooth back so he could get a shiny new fifty pence piece from the tooth fairy. He wasn’t complaining too much though as we exchanged comments on each others art works completed or part completed over Christmas. That and the coffee eased the pain of his gums and my lack of decent light.
I got myself the latest Stuart MacBride book to cheer myself up. Why is it that this book which has to be printed, bound, have a cover fitted and be carried from the printers to Tesco cost nearly two quid less than its digital equivalent from Amazon? Amazon say it’s because VAT is added to the purchase price as the government have decided that an ebook is software. That is a feeble excuse. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that it isn’t software which is according to Merriam-Webster as “The programs that run on a computer and perform certain functions“. An ebook has to be read, it does not perform any function and it does not run on a computer. It’s time the government owned up to this, frankly, ridiculous surcharge. Anyway, this is the second book I’ve bought this year. Is it a sign of the times? We will wait and see with breath suitably bated.