They say there's no rest for the wicked, but today (Sunday), I'm resting. I worked yesterday, so today and tomorrow are mine... unless anything crops up. We do have to continue the search for another property, as our first application was passed over, so are just about to go and look at the outside of a couple, then see if we can get in to view properly tomorrow or Tuesday.
Heather just baked a batch of muffins; raspberry and ginseng peach. 'Moist' is one word; certainly delicious and still warm. Now, we need a coffee to wash them down, so will repair to somewhere worthwhile after seeing those two houses.
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Sunday duly came & went, as has Monday, all but a few hours. Just time to fit in another muffin... I suspect we missed the boat regarding those 2 houses, as the call to the agent today has not been returned. There was a couple here on Sunday, looking around with a view to buying; if they are interested (and they seemed to like it), then the pressure will be on to find us a new place sooner rather than later.
Today we went to buy some potting mix (Heather puts plants in it, or something), and had a rather nice and filling lunch afterwards just round the corner: toasted Turkish, with bacon, egg and salad, and a good coffee, of course.
Heather just baked a batch of muffins; raspberry and ginseng peach. 'Moist' is one word; certainly delicious and still warm. Now, we need a coffee to wash them down, so will repair to somewhere worthwhile after seeing those two houses.
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Sunday duly came & went, as has Monday, all but a few hours. Just time to fit in another muffin... I suspect we missed the boat regarding those 2 houses, as the call to the agent today has not been returned. There was a couple here on Sunday, looking around with a view to buying; if they are interested (and they seemed to like it), then the pressure will be on to find us a new place sooner rather than later.
Today we went to buy some potting mix (Heather puts plants in it, or something), and had a rather nice and filling lunch afterwards just round the corner: toasted Turkish, with bacon, egg and salad, and a good coffee, of course.
This afternoon I placed an order for a few adaptors for the 30D, so that I can attach it to the Zeiss, and also to be able to use some of my older lenses. I acquired a Tamron 24-48 SP zoom a couple of months ago, along with a Canon AE-1 and a couple of lesser lenses; they belonged to the late husband of a lady I visited to advise about a strange photo of the Moon. When I expressed a measure of delight in seeing them, she offered them to me, happy that they would go to someone who appreciated them; I reluctantly accepted the offer. Anyway, I reckon the 24-48 will be a pretty good lens - judging by the brief film test that I gave it - and should sit nicely on the 30D, perhaps being optically better than the 17-85 that's mated with it just now (it will lack autofocus and fully auto exposure, but I can live with that). I have also ordered a remote release/timer, so that I can shoot some time lapse sequences of star trails etc, or a series of exposures on the same object through the Zeiss, to be stacked later. I haven't bought any photography gear for years, and it's quite diverting. I never was a gearhead though, unlike some others of my acquaintance. I admit to being perhaps inordinately fond of my Benbo tripod (British made, don't y'know), and, of course, the obsolescent Canon FDs, but everything else is more or less just 'stuff'.
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