I bought David breakfast at the bakery in Church Village and then helped him change the horn on his car. More work on my accounts, everything is now fully up to date. 🙂 I spent an hour or so doing the initial set up for an on-line shopping cart for another photographer in Essex this afternoon, the joys of broadband internet , I can sit at my desk in South Wales and do a little work for someone more than a hundred miles away.
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A dull Wednesday
A fairly busy morning finishing off the set up of the new laptop, a few hours entering up my accounts just the bank reconciliations to complete now and everything will be fully up to date. Called into Piccadilly Photographic in Cardiff to collect a few items and then delivered a print order to Neil and Michelle. Welsh class this evening, should be having the spoken Welsh assessments next week.
A damp and windy Tuesday
I spent most of the morning installing more software on the new laptop computer and adding my various email accounts so that I can check emails when using the laptop. I went into Caerphilly this afternoon to collect a new Nikon SB-800 flash unit for the D2X camera.
A very wet Monday
David’s car still hasn’t quite met the emissions standard for the MOT. 🙁 I’ve installed most of the essential software on my new laptop, so far so good.
I met with Amy and Alistair this evening for their pre-wedding session, they’re getting married next month at Bryngarw House. They’re a lovely couple and I’m really looking forward to photographing their wedding.
Gave Paul a lift home from the Rhondda this evening.
A very wet Sunday
We had lunch at John and Ida’s in Pontypridd, unfortunately we couldn’t persuade my mother to come out for lunch with us. 🙁 Shopping at Comet – bought a new laptop 🙂 and Tesco at Talbot Green. Checked the CO emissions on David’s car this evening and got absolutely soaked in the process. 🙁
A wet Saturday
David’s car had an MOT test this morning, it failed on a couple of items, nothing too major though.
A damp Friday
Es i bore coffi Cymraeg yn y Bwtsiars, Llantrisant. I went to the Welsh coffee morning at the Butchers in Llantrisant.
I scanned a couple of old black and white photographs on my new scanner this morning, these two were taken by my father who was a very good photographer and from whom I picked up so much photographic knowledge. The first photograph was taken in the studio under tungsten lighting, the rather cute subject is me at a much younger age. 🙂 The second photograph of my mother was taken at home during a session when my father was testing equipment.
David’s car was in the garage for a new clutch this morning, unfortunately a slight mis-diagnosis on David’s part as the differential in the gearbox is broken rather than the clutch. The gearbox and clutch were changed so all he needs to do now is get it through the MOT!
I called into Piccadilly Photographic this afternoon to collect the album for Neil and Michelle and then mounted the photographs in the album. Their album and re-print order is now complete and ready to drop off to them this evening.
A bright sunny Thursday
A beautiful morning, I thought that perhaps spring was at last arriving but it clouded over by mid-morning and was really cold. I spent most of the day helping David change the rear brake shoes on his car. I’m hoping that the hassle of doing all this work on his car will encourage him to refrain from the ‘boy racer’ driving technique that eats his tyres, brakes and clutch at an alarming rate, we’ve bought more tyres for David this last year than both our BMWs and Passat combined!
A cold bright Wednesday
I spent most of the day helping my son David get his car working, this involved a trip to the local tyre service for three tyres, a trip to the local motor factors for a clutch, front discs, front brake pads and rear brake shoes. David changed the front discs and pads this afternoon, he’s having a new windscreen fitted tomorrow and also hopes to change the rear brake shoes tomorrow, he’s naturally expecting me to help. 🙂 Friday the car is booked in for a new clutch and then its just the MOT! Unfortunately with David’s style of driving the tyres and brakes will need changing again very soon. 🙁
I’ve been evaluating some new slideshow software that not only creates DVD slideshows but creates a fairly good web based slideshow, so far it looks very interesting and may replace the software I’m currently using to produce DVD slideshows of our wedding photographs.
Welsh class this evening, more work in preparation for the next assessment.
A cold Tuesday
The new scanner arrived today and I’m very pleased with the results, it’s much faster than my earlier model and the quality of the scans is excellent.