Been a while so this might be a long post.
What news.... er.....
I was on TV! North Tonight to be precise. Our shop is behind the Banchory Bags campaign which is striving to make Banchory a plastic bag free zone my mid summer this year. So STV called in the morning about a week or so ago to see if anyone was available to do a short piece on what we're doing and why. My boss decided I was the person. I am notoriously camera shy so this was a traumatic event and I have never been so sodding scared in my entire life. The camera man and interviewing lady were very nice though so I gave them free sandwiches lol (If you read this boss....it was 'advertising' ;). I haven't seen it (it was on last tuesday night and I was thankfully still working) and I don't want to but allegedly I was 'good'. Not that any of my friends who watched it would say otherwise of course, which leads me to believe I was 'crap' but bless them for trying to ease my panic and impending agorophobia-bought-about-by-making-a-tit-out-of-myself-on-national-telly.
Other news:
Car. Hmmmm. Timing belt went. Not a 'safe' engine. Nuff said. So its buses to and from pretty much everywhere for me until I can afford a new one. Which isn't that bad. Its the 'greener' option isn't it. Thoughwhy Miss [raises hand classroom style] is it The Greener Option when I am the only one on the bus other than the driver most of the time? Doesn't that mean that I am essentially the passenger in a vehicle that eats more fuel and pumps out more crap in a month than my car ever did in a year (facts and figures not entirely accurate but you get my drift). Thanks to the nice man who towed me out of harms way with his landie by the way!
Cloverfeild. Took my kids (the elder 3) to see this on saturday night in Aberdeen. Oh My God. I screamed, the kids screamed, the people in front and behind us screamed.....If you haven't seen it I won't spoil it for you but I defy you to leave the cinema and not look towards the skyline even if you hate the film.
Chickens. Ok so our sexing abilities are rubbish. Out of the 9, I have actually now, 3 odd months later, identified 4 as cockerels (not 2 as originally thought). Thats fine. Thats 2 more sunday lunches than previously planned. They are all fine though and the ones supposed to be producing eggs are still pumping them out faster than I can use them.
What news.... er.....
I was on TV! North Tonight to be precise. Our shop is behind the Banchory Bags campaign which is striving to make Banchory a plastic bag free zone my mid summer this year. So STV called in the morning about a week or so ago to see if anyone was available to do a short piece on what we're doing and why. My boss decided I was the person. I am notoriously camera shy so this was a traumatic event and I have never been so sodding scared in my entire life. The camera man and interviewing lady were very nice though so I gave them free sandwiches lol (If you read this boss....it was 'advertising' ;). I haven't seen it (it was on last tuesday night and I was thankfully still working) and I don't want to but allegedly I was 'good'. Not that any of my friends who watched it would say otherwise of course, which leads me to believe I was 'crap' but bless them for trying to ease my panic and impending agorophobia-bought-about-by-making-a-tit-out-of-myself-on-national-telly.
Other news:
Car. Hmmmm. Timing belt went. Not a 'safe' engine. Nuff said. So its buses to and from pretty much everywhere for me until I can afford a new one. Which isn't that bad. Its the 'greener' option isn't it. Though
Cloverfeild. Took my kids (the elder 3) to see this on saturday night in Aberdeen. Oh My God. I screamed, the kids screamed, the people in front and behind us screamed.....If you haven't seen it I won't spoil it for you but I defy you to leave the cinema and not look towards the skyline even if you hate the film.
Chickens. Ok so our sexing abilities are rubbish. Out of the 9, I have actually now, 3 odd months later, identified 4 as cockerels (not 2 as originally thought). Thats fine. Thats 2 more sunday lunches than previously planned. They are all fine though and the ones supposed to be producing eggs are still pumping them out faster than I can use them.
Photography. Not a huge amount being done right now. Weather is lovely when I am at work but the minute I am off, its either dark or raining. Did manage one day of glorious weather, perhaps two thinking about it, but not happy with any of the shots so they remain in My Pictures. I bought some filters for the D80. Polarizing one helps hugely and you can get some odd effects but lots of practice still needed in general. Due to a (hopefully temporary) technical hitch I have reverted to the SJ6500 anyway. Ooooh and I got a new bag for all my kit. A Tamrac Expedition 7 Its really very good and I am doing a review for UKC shortly (in conjunction with one of the Ortlieb range of waterproof gear sacks hopefully). Will post a link in case anyones looking for a new camera bag. Think thats about it really for now. Just finished reading a really interesting book on the travelling folk of Scotland in the early part of the 1900's and its so interesting I'm going to blog about it once I've finished the first of the two books which I'm reading second..(yes, I read them out of sequence).
Right. Off to round up the chooks and see if my bike is repairable...
Photo by Shirley http://www.flickr/com/photos/neeps .
You WERE brilliant on the tele. Thanks a million for agreeing to do the interview.
ReplyDeleteChristina