We had a girt great gritter up our road about 5.00 pm

Winter is here

I think it could work very well

Some lovely bronze statues in the Burrell Lots of nice things in the Burrell [ William Burrell really enjoyed collecting things - it's a real hotch potch .

Pollock House is nice - sort of friendly , not enormous and over powering .

Scratching my poor head - there's a thought there that's not coming to the surface fast enough

Nah - it's a haven for photographers - I've tried my hand at the Warwick Vase and the Rodin in the Burrell - and they never said a thing .

I'll admit I've not taken the tripod with me - but as you all know I'm not best of friends with it .

Ken have you had the tripod there ?

OOOOOOH nice stuff to get there

Hairy cooooooos, lots of ducks , heavy horses and of course the Burrell and Pollock House , not to mention other stuff as well

When in France I have always been able to obtain good AA batteries from any of the supermarchés [ not necessary to visit a Hypermarchéfor batteries ] and on my last visit spotted that the Energiser Lithium in Silver/Blue colour , were now available very easily and in fact were cheaper than in the UK

As Mannesty said - if cold keep a set in your pocket - wrapped up so they are well above the ambient temperature.

I was out with my K-x [ also uses the Energiser Lithiums ] last week and it was cold but not below freezing , and the K-x was giving me the yellow warning symbol of batteries going low. I foolishly didn't have spares with me so was a little concerned.

It's now a good bit warmer , I've taken several shots with the K-x , the batteries have not been changed and still show green and well charged [ as so they should - I've only taken about 500 shots with that set ]

haha - I like the sort of casual way you drop that last photo in

Cheerful optimist aren't you

NO !!

You have had thoughts enough already .

Let the matter drop and just let us all use our common sense about this .

I seriously think this will have to wait till spring now - but I'm in - I hope