#1 is simply stunning - the reflections and the colour shadings - really beautiful

It''s fine for me

Agreed - and if he does get there he'll be the first person from his school to go there - and from his Air Cadet Unit .

Still today is his last day [ hopefully ] in his present School - so the leavers go to Leavers Assembly wearing their 6th Year Uniform - described 'officially' as smart business dress - interpreted as suit , nice shirt and tie !! The School have accepted him for 6th Form College there, depending on exam results of course, so at least we do not have the worry of trying to find a place for him if he doesn't make Welbeck

Gwyn - he's still got to earn a place there - but yes it is a big chunk of cash every term and he'll be there for 6 terms !! Hopefully after that at Uni for 3 or 4 years .

Hooray - just heard that Grandson #1 has a 2 day Selection board at Welbeck

link

for one of 40 RAF places for the next Academic Session - we thought he'd blown his last interview [ the third one ]



If he gets in Grandma is going to have to help with the costs

I've sat and thought , and cogitated , and thought some more

The I went and had lunch and thought some more.

Yes everyone knows I prefer colour shots - but occasionally I come out in favour of B&W , this however is not one of those times.

The subtle colours on the flower head are truly gorgeous - they stand out nicely against the background and also the ' water dropped ' leaves .

Please leave this one in colour - it's outstanding

the Old with New really works there

I like .

I think you were very unlucky

I'd honestly discuss this with someone like Chris at SRS.

Many of our members buy all their new stuff from him [ I do for one except for my camera which was got in the USA ]. I've found him extremely helpful [ and so are all his staff ] and willing to go that bit further to help

Recently I realised I needed a new ' every day ' camera bag which would take my gear . I emailed him to see if they would be willing to do a trial pack in the shop for me [ a mere 400 ish miles away ] and quickly got a response from him - having done the trial pack. It was as far as I could see an honest opinion and so I bought the bag and am absolutely delighted with it .

Service from Chris is good and an added Bonus is that if you give them your Pentax User name you get free postage

I bought a little white Optio P70 from him last year - knowing full well that it was going to be superceded by new models , and another Forum member had also bought one [ the ad said he had two of them remaining ] . I used it on holiday and it suddenly developed what looked like a sensor problem On my return phoned Chris and the camera was returned and to my utter joy he found another new one hidden in the depths of his store rooms and sent it straight up to me . He had genuinely been unaware of this red one Now THAT is service

Agreed about # 5 - it is special

At one time I had good French - albeit Swiss French after 8 months in Geneva

I've found that my vocabulary comes back pretty quickly - I need about 24 hours then I'm chattering away in ungrammatical French but it has never let me down . While we had stays of 6 weeks at a time in France it was great - now I'm only there for about a week at a time so I'm not getting as much practice as I did. I find I can still read aloud easily and I'm told my accent is good [ that came from some native Parisians ]

I have a little Portugese [ relied on Raymond for that ] but I can understand far more than I could ever speak .

Now I'm working on Ukrainian - now that is a strange language !