Enable Facebook to send you an email alert only when someone messages you, and when it's a contact's birthday. (That is a handy feature). And then, apart from those occasions.... you never need go on there again!

I joined because it was a good way of keeping up with family stuff while my Godson/cousin was fighting cancer over the last few years. He himself was deeply into facebook, as most people under 20 years old are! Other than that I don't go on there really. It's amazing what people consider it appropriate to share with the world, especially people they actually know in real life.

By all accounts this lens is much, much better (and the original version was good too, PF is an overstated problem as it's so easily corrected).

You can buy it in K-mount (or 'to fit Pentax') - no adapter required.

You must be thinking of the old Tamron Adaptall lenses

Yes - especially for £10!! Some of the other 50s are slightly better, but that lens is worth £25 easily, and is still very good.

Oh I just love a thread bristling with recriminations and pent up frustration! But the happy truth is sales on the forum tend to go very smoothly, and even the occasional hiccup is soon sorted out if people can communicate...

As for timeliness of despatching items, yes it's nice if they come quickly, but there's no actual rush in reality... life's too short to get het up about such things... and personally there have been a few times when one of my sales has coincided with a glut of meetings and work deadlines where it's been very hard to get out to the post office... these things happen.

Like the comp of no.4, with the fern leaf. Nice..

These are utterly wonderful! As Michael says, every one a cracker.

Won't the missus let you in the house?

That is my argument for not keeping cats - it's not the cats fault, it's the fault of people who choose to own them! Cats would not normally be present in such high numbers (nor any predator) without humans artifially supporting their population.

Cats have been around so long our urban ecology is probably adapted to their presence in artificially high numbers... that doesn't take away from the sadness of the sight of birds, small mammals and reptiles half chewed to death entirely needlessly

That first shot is a beaut, you don't have to be a steam enthusiast to appreciate the lovely composition and light. The sheen to the paintwork on those wonderfully irregular and rivet-pocked panels is particularly attractive.

Shot 3 is good too, but the brighter upper part of the bridge distracts my eye - I'd crop it so there was just a black band along the top, or remove the bridge entirely. I do like the processing.