sheeps

 

We have sheeps here. Did you know that?

I presume they are still here since we have had another blow the other night. I will go and check.

Yes, they are still here.

NO, NOT D*G*TAL

 

Yes sorry but I won't be using it much if at all. The thing is for some reason I was won over by constant advertising on the web and although it's not quite the Leica I lust after I paid good money for the Campsnap. 

If we're being honest here, it does do what it says on the box - takes snaps, is lightweight and easy to use but the resulting images are less that lovely. Having said that this snap is of my lovely Eve dressed in her Friday best off to accompany Keith the cat on his daily stroll down the back track - in a gale. The cat in the snap is not Keith but Gordon  who supposedly lives elsewhere but spends most of his precious time trying to get in the hoose as soon as we open the doors/ windows. He'll be at the window shouting for his mate Keith in the daytime and the nighttime too if I am in the warming room in the middle of the night. Lovely creature I might add.

Anyway, not sure why I acquired this less then useful camera. I shall have to give it away.

sleepless in Tolsta

 I don't sleep very well - if at all some nights. If I get too physically tired that stops me sleeping. If i'm not tired enough, that too. It's a pain.

Oh yes I take magnesium supplements, count sheeps [ there are plenty here to count] and meditate but the night carries on without me sleeping often.

Perhaps next year will be better.

and the lights are ooop

 

The lights are OOP! The lights are oop! And Emily and Isabel are getting dizzy.

Paul still has a pile of work to finish and kindly allowed me to snap him in his lab with the totally unsuitable camera and film [XA and foma200] I had with me that day. Gemma meanwhile still has a few more teaching days to get through. Hopefully I'll get down over Christmas for the obligatory snap.

sat sitting

 

I do hope we still have a roof over our heads as last night night was meant to be a bit of a breeze. It wouldn't be the first time we have lost tiles and chimney pots.  

I hear M OoK got over to the mainland safely on the last ferry out for a few days. I am sure she is luxuriating in her own bed this morning. One day she was here we took ourselves off to Valtos to visit her old cycle racing coach Angus, someone I met at their local beach some years aback and didn't recognise him from 40 years ago - although he did remember me! So it goes. Need less to say it was lovely visit - soup and all.

Dave

 

He didn't have a hat on this time unlike eighteen years or so ago at the short lived island photographic club where I think I attempted a 13x 18 large format snap with the old old FKD.

Eve's current coach

 

At this time of year what with the rain wind and sometimes snow, Eve [and me occasionally] take to a bit of indoor cycling in the potting shed. Inevitably Keith pops himself on the window shelf to make sure one doesn't slack. Although of a certain age Keith is still lovely - except for the fact that I am now allergic to him.

BTW: if one is on the island atm, go and see the wonderful Tom Hickman exhibition in An Lanntair. Really wonderful.