We woke to sunshine. Real, unabated sunshine with drying streets too. Scamp needed to go shopping, so we had to risk driving out to Tesco with no hope of getting a parking space when we got back. When we got back after an altercation with a total prick in the carpark. – As an aside, I’d like to say that one of the great benefits of having your own little slice of webspace it that you can say what you really feel without fear of having it redacted by some pinhead admin. I am the admin so I’ll say what I like. – Anyway, the prick took umbrage at me bumping a car’s wing mirror (not even his car) with my trolley. After emptying my trolley, I just gave him a smile as I walked as slowly as I could in front of his car. One of the great benefits of being old is that you can do things like that. If the aforementioned prick wants to scream and shout at you, all you do is grab your chest and stagger around a bit and watch the colour drain from his face. Then you smile again, stick your tongue out and walk away. It’s a brilliant windup. Yes, I know ‘boy’, ‘crying’, ‘wolf’ etc. Until then it’s still great fun and to be recommended for dealing with angry pricks.
Got back to find that there was a wedding stretch limo reversing tentatively up the hill near our house. To accommodate it, I had to park miles from the house and carry the bags down the hill. Is that what they call ‘Karma’?
After a cup of coffee I went for a walk to St Mo’s armed with the Nikon and 70-300 and also the old E-PL1 with 9mm. Got a few shots, but for once the 9mm failed to perform. Don’t know the reason why. It might have been too slow a shutter speed because there was a considerable blur in the images, but this is the first time I’ve used that camera/lens combination. Maybe I’ve gotten so used to the remarkable E-PL5 that I’d forgotten how limiting the ‘1’ is. Must do some more tests before I can make a reasoned judgement.
After that we were waiting for JIC and Sim to arrive from ‘darn sarf’. They made really good time and were great company tonight. Let’s hope the weather holds out for tomorrow, because it’s been a great day today, weatherwise and a very entertaining one too.