What are you all up to
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1 Hump or Two? @Rufs
'Twas a beautiful sunny, crisp morning up here, or down here depending where you are reading this from, so after a walk with Mrs.WN to blow the cobwebs away I decided to give The Van a wash and internal clean. OH accompanied her mother on a stroll. MiL seemed to actively enjoy herself yesterday which was oh so good to see.
The mist with its dampness rolled in mid afternoon so I was glad we got some things done.
Hope all those who over feasted yesterday didn't pay too high a price for it.😫 I was allowed the day off from the kitchen today. Pizza and wine night tonight.
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@Wherenext you have a better day weather wise than here in East Cheshire, as we have had fairly thick & very damp mist all day, so we decided not to go out in the car and only walked from the site. We too have had pizza tonight for our dinner!
By the lack of posts on here it looks as if most members are sleeping off the effects of their Christmas dinner!😁
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Well hope everyone had a great Christmas. It was warm-ish on Christmas Day with 14C. Had the family round and had a brilliant day. The day itself just goes too fast.
As always Santa knew exactly what I wanted, I gave my wishes in November and I had actually forgotten what I'd asked so it was a nice surprise.
One present, that was just a 'stocking filler' has become one of my favourites and I played with it all yesterday afternoon. It's a cheap K&F adapter that let me put on my old Canon FD lenses on to my latest Canon digital R cameras. So I was putting lenses from early 1980's onto cameras from 2024!
You lose autofocus and have to do 'stop down metering' (you have to of a certain age to remember that) which I worked out I hadn't done since 1979 but I amazed myself how quickly I knew remembered, or my muscles did, how to do that - select aperture, focus first then use move the shutter speed till the camera says it's correct. It was fun and there are plenty of people who reckon old prime FD (and other 35mm) lenses are just as good as modern ones but that's a 'pixel peeping' project for the new year.
Anyway hope everyone continues to enjoy the holidays.
Post edit - if anyone is interested you can these adapters (got mine through Amazon) for many combinations of older 35mm lenses onto modern digital makes, so for example older Nikon 35 mm onto Canon, Pentax to today's Nikon…
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Never a dull moment. Had a busy Christmas Day - including driving down to Exeter and back after playing for Midnight Mass (to pick our youngest daughter up) - got home in time for breakfast. Fortunately, our son took her back.
Now we're awaiting the arrival of our eldest daughter and family from the Outer Hebrides. They arrive tomorrow and are staying for a fortnight.
In the meantime, it's nice to know someone is having a lovely relaxing time..… Lizzie's loving her new snuggle cushion...
David
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Been foggy all day here. Very bleak midwinter. Taken just on a walk near our house.
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Same weather here where we are staying and we should have had sun all day after a sharp frost, we could only see about 40 metres in front of us so not been anywhere today.
Well good job we brought some dvd's with us as TV programmes are mostly repeats.
Looks like you are trying out new camera bits @cornersteady.
Have a good weekend folks.
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Same here too @Cornersteady and @RedKite..... a misty and damp day. Just the sort of day to stay indoors and eat chocolate... 🤣🤣🤣
David
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Same here, as yesterday, and across much of the North of England it would seem. Hope those that were on the road heading home from their Christmas stay away, and all those too who had to head out in their vehicles for whatever reason arrived at their destinations safely. We just walked from the caravan, on good hard footpaths put in by the site owner, similar to the walks we did yesterday.
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We had that weather, all the way back from Chatsworth to East Yorkshire - was pretty grim driving but we got back safely. What I couldn't get my head around was the number of drivers with no lights on apart from their running lights. Absolute madness, especially on the motorway - I reckon a good 50% of cars were unlit. Do they think they're saving electricity or something??
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We were travelling back from Hertfordshire yesterday, it started very misty then went increasingly to fog, unpleasant to say the least; we had a switch of drivers so OH could rest his eyes for a while. It was a longer than usual journey as we decided to use the A15 (and use Humber Bridge) instead of braving the A1 as it looked pretty jammed in various places according to Google maps. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas wherever you were. We had a good time with the family this year, very enjoyable and really great to see them all, although grandson was a bit under the weather so we are both on the lookout for our own sore throat!! He is working some shifts in Sainsbury’s and doing his lifeguard shifts in local pool during his gap year mixing with so many people. Our granddaughter is also doing about 16 hours in Next so I suppose they will get immunity in the germ soup they live in!🙄 Do hope this weird week goes well for all, take care and very best wishes for the New Year.
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