That's not pointless!!!!!

Steve

Nice. Looks like you're getting the hang of what the Q-S1 can do .

That aircraft is an interesting interloper. First thought was if only you'd pressed the shutter button a few seconds earlier. Then a second thought hit home: you've subtly captured what that bit of countryside is really like - aircraft and their noise is all part of it.

Looks like the undercarriage is down so presumably coming in to land. Which airport?

Steve

Nicely done, as usual.

Wouldn't mind seeing what it looks like head-on - any chance???

Steve

A 'grow your own pink oyster mushrooms' kit was under the Christmas tree 3 weeks ago. The fungus has now sprouted, one growth from each of the three orifices. Still a while before it's ready to harvest and eat. In the meantime, it looks like it's going to be an interesting photographic subject - and no need to go crawling around damp woodland to find it!

Here's the result of the first photographic session. Going for the dramatic look this time.
K3 + Sigma 105mm macro + LED light.

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Steve

Don't things like that stay the same during the 'transition phase' i.e. until the end of 2020? After that, nobody knows.

If there is no agreement at the end of the transition phase, presumably you would be able to get a VAT exemption for equipment bought in the EU and exported to the UK, then pay import duties etc. when it enters the UK. Wasn't there a forum member last year who visited the UK (i.e. the EU) from Canada, had to buy a camera here and got a VAT exemption certificate for taking it back to Canada? That might be us in a year's time!

Steve

Didn't need another bag, didn't even want another bag, but at that price it would have been silly to ignore it (£39-99 on Ricoh website but out of stock) . Trying to rationalise the purchase, it fills a gap between holster for SLR + lens and rucksack for SLR + several lenses/sandwiches/kitchen sink. And as my 4 year old grand-daughter would say, you can never have too many bags (and she's an expert on bags).

Steve
PS: Are you getting commission for these sales, HarisF1??

Glad it's not just me! Mould eventually won the battle about the high chair . But there are now two cots - daughter decided that ours (the one she had used as a baby) wasn't good enough for her children so got another one for when they visited, then told us to keep it once the grandchildren had grown out of it.

Steve

Great name!!

Flo and Ted Phillips. I was taught O-level history by Flo. Looked ancient, pig-tails in rings around ears and a dragon of a head mistress. Ted looked like Mr. Pastry and taught me A-level maths. Betty Tunstall somehow got me through French O-level with a better grade in spoken French than I got in spoken English (which is convincing evidence of why you shouldn't believe exam results!).

No, but I wish I had been. She must have hated it! My brother can't remember it and he swears he didn't do it...

You were presumably too late to see the white footprints that appeared one night - in one end of the front drive, up a wall, across several roofs, down another wall and out the other end of the drive. It didn't wash off so a painter was brought in to overpaint each footprint with black paint. Which just resulted in black splodges up the drive, up the wall ... etc. Lasted for ages .

And then there was the day the sports pavillion at the far side of the playing field caught fire due to kids smoking behind it. A big audience cheered as a fire engine drove deep gouges across the newly marked out running track, only to find the fire had been put out by a neighbour leaning over his fence with a garden hose.

They were the happy days!!

Steve

Thanks. It's making wonder about a new project - a spoof a month .

Steve

Excellent photos. And thanks for the story/observations - they made me think about what I was seeing.

Do you know the species? There are people who are interested in what's happening to wasps (numbers, distribution etc.), there's a survey in August/September when the last of the year's wasps are about to die before the winter but they might also be interested in what's hibernating where. Lots of people are concerned about bees but wasps just seem to get an unjustifiably bad press.

Steve