Bad Cold

Have been off work with a bad cold,I get sore throats and sinus infections more as I age,not helped by my regular cycling between Bristol & Bath.
I am back singing with 2 choirs,St Johns Festival Choir and the Handful of Singers.
I am finding the commitment a difficult balance,though the Handful have improve my sight reading and confidence more than any other choir I have sung with.I bowed out of doing a solo ,straight after coming back off leave,I find it very stressful,even more so with only 2 weeks to prepare.
I have got all my photos reprinted free of charge and the man who runs the mini lab even through in a few free Kodak films,I will rescan them myself.
Here is another dusty scan from the same batch,this is Prior Park again.

Pembrokeshire

We have had a good holiday in Pembrokeshire and stayed on the Stackpole estate,the area is very pretty.
Here is a picture from the Lily Ponds,sadly a terrible scan,the local lab has made the most terriible dusty scans and the prints are no better,I have sent the negs back for redoing!!.
We got caught up in the M4 fuel protests,on the way back, for which we have no sympathy.
As the oil gets more expensive they need to change their line of business if they cannot cope with change or invest in new technology.
We noticed how FAT!! the UK is getting while we were away,Mrs Thatchers trashing of Home Economics seems to mean all the familiies dont know how to prepare a good meal with vegetables any more and the food industry fills them full of fat and sugar to make a few bucks.It is partcularly noticable that men are getting shorter and fatter.
OK I've had my rant,here is my dusty scan of my picture from Stackpole.Thanks to Pembroke folks.

Bad Start

Kept awake till 0415 a.m. by pissed up teenagers in the street.
At one particular house a few doors down,as soon as the parents are away,we get noise and bad behaviour.
The parents must shoulder most of the responsibility but the rest lies with brewers,Stella,Strongbow etc. and the local shops that sell it to under age youths.
The alcohol manufacturers need to sort their marketing and responsible sales side out otherwise we will vote for someone who will take them on.
Went to the amatuer gardening show at the Bath & West Showground,tried to go by train and bicycle but they provide no facilities for cyclists so ended up driving.
I had a nice time,the show was quite good,lots of interesting stalls.The giant Veg, could have been better presented ,but was great fun.I took a fair few pictures.
The National Dahlia Competition was impressive,but lit by sodium lights,so you could not really appreciate the colours properly.
We will go again,certainly worth the money,next time by train to Castle Cary,and bicycle to the show,if they sort out some facilities.
Here is a picture from the Farne islands from a recent holiday in Northumberland.

Nice Start

Had a nice bacon sandwich at the Brunel Buttery on Bristol Harbourside.
We watch as the builders put up the equivalent of a 60's school science block opposite on the old Canons Marsh site.It is so depressing that the architects cant do better than this mediocr
e scheme.
Went to Prior Park landscape garden on Saturday,took some Large Format film on my newly bought MPP MkVIII camera,here is one contact print,the scratches are from my contact printer.