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My broken Sony camera
My 2 year-old Sony RX100 camera wouldn’t fully open the telescopic lens nor would it fully retract it. Neither powering it off and on or removing the battery or pushing / pulling the lens had any effect.As usual, an Internet search threw up many similar experiences as well as many solutions that worked for some and not for others. No way was I going to venture opening it up to replace a cable or wiggle this or that. But I did try a suggestion to loosen the screws in the base of the camera body. And it worked! After a little re-tightening of the screws so that they didn’t work themselves out, all is well. We’ll see…
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Earning pocket money (1)
I guess I was about 13 when I started delivering newspapers to make some pocket money. The Sunday papers weighed a ton, as they still do, so there were only about thirty or so papers I could manage before having to return to the shop for a second lot. Of course, this was in the days when kids delivered papers. Nowadays you can’t get a newsagent to deliver – kids don’t want to do it and fewer people buy papers. Sometimes you see papers being delivered by someone in a car! (more…) -
The Independent’s front page (what a mess)
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A bright, sunny day in London
It may have been a bright, sunny day in London but I’ve chosen to use black and white images, apart from the one taken with the iPhone.
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Valentine’s Day tea
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I’ve become a smart person
Finally, we’ve gone over to smartphones – iPhones, no less! I just need someone to ring me.I’ve really taken to the speech recognition capabilities, which I’ve found to be amazingly accurate. It solves the problem of entering text when small keys come up against a bloke’s fingertips.
On a rather grim afternoon I tried out the photo capabilities. It’s not up to my camera’s image quality but, with a bit of help from Photoshop, images are acceptable on a web page.
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Out the window
We didn’t get much snow and it didn’t stay for long.
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Bags in a bag
The Ocado Internet shopping included a sealed plastic bag containing…. compostable caddy liners. I can only assume that this seemingly unnecessary packaging was needed to transport the goods from somewhere outside the Ocado distribution centre, but it doesn’t look good given current concerns regarding use of plastic bags.
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Not everyone can whistle
Not everyone can whistle, but I have always been able to! I can even whistle and hum at the same time, as well as whistle by sucking in rather than blowing out. I like to think I whistle in tune. When I was a kid, probably around 13 or 14, I thought I could compose tunes and so I whistled away with my little compositions. Of course nothing was memorable enough to survive, and so sadly I was no budding Lennon–McCartney.
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On the table
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