annual Garden Party of Brentwood & District Photographic Club -- I used my 'Gift' SMC-F 35-70mm f3.5-4.5 zoom and some fill-in flash outdoors -- I got some great snaps for the Club Facebook !!
Some of the Grub !

Brentwood Photo Club Garden Party 2019 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
ME enjoying the Grub -- Photo Credit : David Batterbury

Brentwood Photo Club Garden Party 2019 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
My wife giving out the orders as usual -- she should have been in The Army !

Brentwood Photo Club Garden Party 2019 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Mick Major brought his latest Toy for us to examine ( A NIKON !!! )

Brentwood Photo Club Garden Party 2019 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Always some thing Photogenic in Helga's Garden

Brentwood Photo Club Garden Party 2019 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

a Forum Member sent me a 'Surprise Package' saying I could DUMP contents if it was no good -- well on opening all excited I found a 'Mint' SMC -F 35-70mm f3.5-4.5 Short Zoom BUT with a stuck Focus Ring -- BUMMER ! Anyway -- emailed 'Asahi Photo' in Brentford and got reply saying " NO SPARES for that lens so cannot help" - another BUMMER !! Gently played with it then contacted several Forums but no luck -- the TODAY another go -- this time I pulled the lens to '70mm Macro' and Suddenly -- Focus Ring un-froze! YO !! No longer a Bummer but a working lens on both Auto and Manual focus -- keeping fingers crossed I used my K10D for some 'test snaps' ---
70mm macro @ f5.6

Testing Gift lens with 'Stuck Focus Ring' ! by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

Testing Gift lens with 'Stuck Focus Ring' ! by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Manual Exposure -- 1/30th @ f16

Testing Gift lens with 'Stuck Focus Ring' ! by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

Ha ha ! That would make me look like 'Kevin the Teenager -- I HATE YOU !!'

Regarding Ilford Photographic Society -- I went to Judge there once on my lovely Austin A35 Pea Green and when i came out it had been STOLEN from outside the hall --- an Ilford Member took me to Ilford Police and I think gave me a lift back home to Brentwood -- car was found 3 days later -- it had done 147 miles but luckily NOT Damaged !
Later Car was involved with Me and 2 Villains who took me hostage on a smash and grab raid in Barking, Essex when I was doing Press Photography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-audrpBY96c

hope this provides some Info on Photo Clubs in UK -- I give a 'link' to the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain 'Federations' where you can find Club near to YOU-- for example, Brentwood is in the EAF so I click on EAF and see all the clubs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hplT13Vjn4

www.thepagb.org.uk/about/federations

Nice to know this 'Old Film Bloke' has not lost his touch -- just bits of my Body going funny !

Another stay in Basildon Hospital so not able to get out and about yet but I found some 6x7 trannies in my files never scanned before so I got busy with my new lovely CANON 9000F Mk II scanner !

Yellow and Blue Still Life -- outdated Fuji RDP II 135mm f4 SMC Macro-Pentax 6x7 lens

Blue and Yellow by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Traditional Thatched Cottage, 105mm f2.4 SMC Takumar 6x7, AGFA color CT18

Traditional Thatched Cottage by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Fallow Deer Stag, Weald Country Park near Brentwood. 200mm f4 SMC Takumar 6x7, Fuji RDP II

Proud Stag by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

I was GIVEN a Nikon Coolscan with some cables but on various forums was told it is so difficult to get the card and other things to make it work on modern computers .

Nikon Scanner by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

Both of my MX Cameras are Faulty -- one shutter does not close, so the slit is open and flash contacts 'Burnt Out' -- the second does not meter at all and flash contacts burnt out-- must have taken too many Local Press Photos with them -- ! I CAN use the one which does not meter -- I took off Base- Plate and lubricated the Cogs and Levers and Pivots with a minute amount of Sewing Machine Oil so it 'winds on Sweetly' now and I can use a Weston Master meter or 'Guess' .