Monday, October 10, 2022

Update on everything

 Lots of things happening since my last posting here. I’ll try to give a summary.

My Goodreads reading challenge this year has been given a boost by my joining a book club. It meets once a month in the pub however is currently on a slight hiatus. Have read some interesting novels mostly in the fantasy or sci-if realms, which is the theme of the club (there are other themes but that is the one I chose to join).

I am still doing the DJing at a community internet station, although I have just dropped one of the shows due to it being too much (volunteering is great but when it takes up so much free time there is a balance to be struck).

I attended the London MCM Comic-Con in May and took loads of photos. I set up a new Instagram account purely for my cosplay photography. I’m going again at the end of October.

I attended The Photography Show at the NEC in September and traded in my Canon DSLR and lenses for a new Sony camera. It’s a mirrorless blogging camera similar to my a5000 but with a better spec. I haven’t used it much at the moment, but will be taking it to Comic Con and hope to use it a lot there.

Some sad news, we had to say goodbye to our beloved cats this year. One died in May and the other in September. It was very sad but they were very ill and the kindest thing was to put them down. I do miss having them about, they were timid and shy but were a big presence in our home.

My son is back at university, having been home all summer with us. He needed to retake a module by doing an exam, he passed and we’re very relieved he did. My daughter passed her driving test a few days ago.

Like I said, a lot has happened recently.


Friday, February 18, 2022

Storms Dudley and Eunice hit UK

This week I've been in one of those strange holiday bubbles, where I have a week off work and have not planned trips out or the weather hasn't been very good. It's been a fairly poor week weather-wise, Wednesday and Thursday apart. I did visit my parents on Wednesday, which was good, the threat of a storm was always there however and the wind did get much stronger in the afternoon but thankfully I was back by the time things got worse.

I haven't been out with my cameras as much as I'd hoped this week. The weather has been quite wet and my mirrorless cameras are not weather-sealed. I do have two DSLRs which have weather-sealed bodies but the lenses are not weather-sealed, so I didn't want to risk taking them out. Plus the fact that I didn't particularly know where to take them even if I did feel like going out. I spent an hour or so out with my Sony a5000 yesterday. I bought it as a vlogging camera mainly but I also took some still photographs with it near the canal.

The weather today is particularly bad in terms of the winds. There are gusts of up to 100mph in some parts and there is lots of travel disruption.

This week I have watched a few TV shows that I wouldn't normally have been able to watch, so at least I have done that.