Food, a faulty pump and a new lens

1 February 2013

One month down; eleven to go ... oh how fast the time flies by!!!

The work on our new shower room goes on, there's a decorator in there right now doing his bit.  There's a problem with the waste pump though that is still not sorted.  It looks like they will need to order a new one which of course will delay completion again.  So far the room is looking pretty good though and it looks as though we will have a lot more room in there than before.  We'll be pleased when it's all over with though.  We were due to have Kile this weekend but have had to put him off while the work is ongoing.

Yesterday I ordered a Sony 50mm f1.4 prime lens.  That is a very fast lens.  I've seen others at f1.2 but F1.4 is the fastest that Minolta and Sony have done.  The only down side is that Mifsuds only uses Royal Fail so although it should be here today, there's no guarantee with that lot!  Mifsuds also has a 600mm f8 lens too but at £400 it's out of my reach at the moment.  That's a pity but - there again carrying such a large lens would be hard work for someone with mobility problems.  Maybe I won't be going for that one.

Like so many other areas Warwickshire has begun switching off street lights in various areas of the county.  They go off at midnight and come back on around 5am.  It all began last night officially.  OK ... but Wednesday they got turned off by accident and apologies have been given.  But guess what - we didn't notice either night seeing as we were fast on in the land of nod ;-)))

Surprise surprise ... the lens has just arrived.  They had sent it Special Delivery.  It looks very good with no signs of use.  I shall have a play with it later.

I did get the photos from Wednesday sorted yesterday.  Out of 70 shots I got just 15 worthwhile images - here's one of them ... 

Selfridges building.

Let's see what funny we have today ...

A large hospital recently hired several cannibals as it couldn't find
enough British staff. "You are all part of our team now", said the HR
manager during the welcoming briefing. "You get all the usual benefits
and you can go to the canteen on the Ground Floor for something to eat,
but please don't eat any of our other employees".
The cannibals promised they would not. Four weeks later their boss
remarked, "You're all working very hard and I'm satisfied with your
work. However, one of our secretaries has disappeared. Do any of you
know what happened to her?"
The cannibals all shook their heads "No".
After the boss had left, the leader of the cannibals said to the others,
"Which one of you idiots ate the secretary ?"
A hand rose hesitantly.
You fool!" the leader continued. "For four weeks we've been eating
managers and no one noticed anything. But, NOOOooo, you had to go and
eat someone who actually does something."  

31 January 2013