cars and electronics!

After safely carrying us  about 1500 miles, a round trip of 900 miles to stay with my brother plus visiting relatives from there....the car's clutch decided that it didn't want ANY gear...but just half a mile from home...so lucky!

We could have done without the expense only two weeks before travelling!!

Back to bus travelling ..no bad thing,we have to use our local services or lose them.

I'm sorting through all the various "lectronic liquorice" to work out which leads and plugs to take with us,and which leads work to get pictures on here....

 perpetual motion personified...granddaughter Woodchip

a bunch of frogs...in Cafe 50 in Yeovil

I'm quite proud of the papering and tiling I've done...plus repainting the gift we received of kitchen shelves.

Next to find the lead that will work with the camera that Brother has lent to me!

We're working on which bags to take...and re-checking the fine print on our internal flight, I saw that the carry on bags have to TOTAL 7kg...unlike our main flight which is 7kg plus a handbag....teaching us to travel lighter!

Shop Tidying

I've put the Etsy shop on holiday...no point getting sales when I can't send items out..and cleared out all from Ebay except those being watched, and sent a nudge to the watchers. They have 8 hours to respond...

With all the nibbling off of fees for this and that I'm going off ebaying, and etsy finances are no longer simple..It is supposed to be, by combining all the ins and outs in one place and time. However monthly bills were far clearer.

I'll be able to put my mind to organising selling work when we return...hopefully!
Then I can get the bigger camera mended, possibly..it may cost more to have new "brains" in a digital camera than buying a new one!   Meanwhile I have the loan of a smaller camera which will be good for travelling, and an early present of a new tablet computer so that I have less to carry..a 17" screen laptop takes a lot of room!

Time to learn how to get images from the new image takers onto the computer!

camera fail and friends visiting

This is the last image I've been able to get off the memory card...and that only showed up via the computer,not the camera.

I too kit to the local good camera shop and we tried all ways to diagnose the problem. It appears that its the camera not talking to the sd card or its own internal memory.
Luckily there is a specialist camera repair shop in Hope Street in Glasgow. Five minutes walk from the bus station,or half an hour from the velodrome.

Meanwhile I'm back to film camera. I bought a secondhand working OM10 last year.

This has to happen when we have friends visiting!

The first ones stayed here overnight, and we were hoping for a ride together before they left.  The weather was decidedly wet, so we visited a gallery and had hot drinks  and cakes.

over-dramatic

Somehow the delicate blue/green colours have come out yellow.....the color balance is normally good,but somehow faced with sunsets the olimpus acts like a phone camera.....

relief!!

I tried taking a new image....still it didn't show...

Tried a new SD card...bingo!   We're back in business.

At least I now have a file on the computer with all the images from the SD card.

But that doesn't explain how a two-thirds full SD card suddenly starts taking the photos on,as far as the camera is concerned....but not the laptop.

I've only got to re-take two images, thankfully!!