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April
Well,
we’re over the April Fools jokes by now folks; did you get caught? I didn’t
this year at least. A few years ago there was uproar here in Warwickshire when
the local paper showed council workers taking down the usual Shakespeare signs
and erecting a Tellytubbyland sign. That one was fun.
Yesterday
we went to Brum for the day and I good day, even if it seems half the city is
looking like a huge building site. But there again, it is a huge building site.
As well as the New Street station and new tramway works, there’s work going on
within the old library building and all the businesses in there have closed.
And then they are re-laying a lot of the bricks on the pedestrian area as well.
But not starting in one place and working straight through the area, oh no,
they are doing it in bits here and there. Still, we enjoyed it anyway, and I
still love the place.
I
managed to get a good few photos while I was over there but this morning when I
came to edit them I found out that the settings on my camera had been changed
somehow. This latest set are all J/Pegs, not RAW images. It’s obviously
something I have done seeing as I’m the only one who touches the settings
anyway; but why how, well that is unknown. I can still do something with them
though, I hope.
Low
bridges seem to be popular around here. Here’s another stuck lorry …
(off Facebook ...
http://www.nuneaton-news.co.uk/Lorry-wedged-bridge-Nuneaton/story-26274680-detail/story.html)
Well,
this one is yet again stuck under one on a busy road in and out of Dorktown.
But that bridge is a live railway bridge, live in as much as it carries one
part of West Coast main line. This was posted 14 hours ago, so if you were held
up on that route, now you know why.
That
book I ordered was the one that Royal Fail managed not to deliver even though
we were in. I have a feeling that part of it is the sign we have on our front
door that asks people to be patient while we get to the door. The normal posty
does, as do most others, it’s only the Royal Fail parcels guys who don’t. This
is not the first time it has happened. Anyway – the book wasn’t quite what I
thought it was. The titles gives it away really, Eyes of Nikon. The eye of any camera is the lens, and the book is a
description of all the Nikon range of lenses. I’m still happy with it though,
the images in there are some of the best I’ve ever seen.
When
we got home the postie had been and I was surprised that my copy of AP had
arrived. Considering it normally arrives on Saturday morning and yesterday was
Thursday, I wondered why. It wasn’t until later in the evening that the penny
dropped. Today is public holiday, as is Monday, so the chances are that copies
wouldn’t get to subscribers until Tuesday. And that dropped penny also brought
something else into focus. For some reason I had it in my head that yesterday
was Good Friday, and therefore Brum would be choc-a-block with shoppers, yet it
wasn’t, which puzzled me. For once Jan had the day’s right and it was Thursday.
Yet when we got the markets, the full market was on; normally on Thursday there
isn’t one. Oh what fun and games we play … … …
Not
all the images on my camera were from yesterday; here’s on …
I got this one in
town on Tuesday (I think).
And
today’s funny …
The
flight attendant on our trip was handing out plastic pilot wings to some kids.
As I stepped
forward, she jokingly offered me one, but I passed.
Pointing to the Airborne wings on my Army uniform, I
explained, “The last time someone
gave me wings, I had to jump
out of the airplane.”
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