Category: News from the front

 

Today Poppy & I went to Scrambles at Ratho- It’s an indoor play area for kids. There’s 3 zones for different ages. Poppy tried them all… The photos lack their usual quality here- partly because they were taken on my phone- but mostly because I was scrambling round after her. 

Some of the gaps to scramble through are particularly narrow, and it’s not often that I could sit up, let alone stand up. Pops loved it though- not the action shot (above) as Poppy runs round the corner to get away from me. She’s still fearless- she went over a rope-bridge thing, down slides, up rope-ladders- under, over, round, then all over again.

Poppy, climbing up to get back to the slide.

Poppy’s new rabbit pajamas. She can even point to the rabbit on the front and say “rabbit”. She’s very clever you know.

We had an face pulling competition. Well, there was nothing on tele. Here’s the photos of the contenders. It’s your time to vote now please- who wins?

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Nearly a year ago for my birthday, Deird got me a new camera. It was a canon EOS400D “Digital Rebel”- (Why digital rebel I’m not really sure- how buying the most popular entry level digital SLR is rebellious wasn’t in the instruction manual) anyway, the camera was good- but, well, had a fault. 

Every now and again it would lock up- and the only way to unlock it was remove the battery. Not great, because even entry level SLRs aren’t cheap. (Single Lens Reflex in case you were wondering)

Anyway, I took it back to John Lewis- where I bought it. They sent it to Canon, and 3 weeks later, the camera was returned to me. It locked up on the very first shot I took with it- so back to Canon it went. It came again back yesterday, and I picked it up. And, to check it, I tried taking a photo in the store. It locked up. I bitched and moaned enough that rather than send it off for a 3rd time, they replaced it for a new model.

The sales assistant replaced it for the newer model- (12 mega-pixel, not 10) telling me that they no longer made the model camera I’d originally bought. So, I walked out of the store with a  nice new shiny camera- an EOS450. Thanks Mr Sales Assistant.

The odd thing is, when I looked at the camera sales desk as I left, they still had EOS400’s (my old camera) on the shelf. I don’t get it- but thanks mr sales guy. Really nice of you… 

Anyway- here’s a couple of photos from the new camera.

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