Monday is the day of the week when I catch up with personal tasks. I generally work weekends, often with weddings on Friday and Saturday and processing the images on a Sunday. When I have a wedding free weekend I’m often meeting with couples over the weekend to discuss their future wedding plans. There’s also a lot of evening meetings, so I like to chill out a little on Mondays. I still answer the telephone and reply to emails but other than that it’s mainly a non-working day with little or no Camelot Photography work.

I checked out the basketball sites and the Rhondda Rebels won their home game against the Sheffield Hatters last Saturday – a great start for their first home game of the new season.

One of my hobbies (when I have time – a bit of a pun!) is restoring old pendulum clocks, the current project is restoring a Vienna Regulator made by Gustav Becker around 1890. The case is in very good condition but the movement has suffered from some rather strange recent maintenance. When I received the clock the movement was dripping with oil! The time keeping side of the clock is working well but the striking side requires some further work. I’ve stripped the movement and given it an initial clean but I need to order a few parts and set about stripping it down, giving it a thorough clean and proper oiling, together with a few replacement parts, reassembling and setting it up.

“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.” Tony Benn, In “Independent,” (London), 21 Oct 1989.