I went into Piccadilly Photographic this morning to collect more albums and mounts. Re-calibrated and profiled my Eizo monitor and did a little housekeeping on the main computer.
Had an email to confirm that my new scanner has been sent, it should arrive tomorrow.
A lovely morning, up very early as usual. My ageing Canon scanner has been playing up for some time after working well for a number of years. I’ve dismantled it and it appears to be a problem with the ribbon cable between the sensor and main circuit board, I could repair it but as it’s now fairly old and lower resolution than current models I decided that it’s time to get a replacement. I don’t scan a large number of things but I need a scanner that will scan documents, photographs for retouching and negatives up to medium format sizes so I decided to purchase the Canon 8400F, it’s an upgraded and higher resolution model that is very similar in design to my current scanner, it should arrive early next week.
We had lunch at John and Ida’s in Pontypridd, they make delicious home made rice pudding. 🙂
A relaxing evening at home.
“Love is friendship set on fire.” – Jeremy Taylor
Changed the front brake disc pads on the Passat this morning, just the green BMW to sort out next.
Some light snow early this morning, very cold with a severe wind chill.
A networking lunch at Right Management Consultants today, an interesting speaker and a good opportunity to network. A wander around Cardiff after the lunch. David had a job interview in the offices next door to Right’s, he’s been offered a job and starts on Monday. 🙂
I hope it’s warmer tomorrow as I have to service the brakes on both the Passat and the green BMW. 🙁
Received the images from Denise Foggett, Community Relations at RAF Marham taken by SAC Ashley Keates during our recent visit, here are a few.
This one is of me in the front seat of a Tornado GR4.
And here’s one of the Basketball Trophy presentation.
We had a terrific time that day and are very grateful to everyone at RAF Marham especially Keith Watson, Claire Johnson, Cpl Greenfield and ‘Rem’ Merrick for all their work in making it such a memorable day.
I spent the morning creating the web gallery for Neil and Michelle’s wedding album design and processing their print orders.
This afternoon I bought a new Nikon D2X camera and spent quite a lot of time familiarising myself with the menus and options. I’m very pleased with the initial testing – colour accuracy and autofocus are excellent but the 12 megapixel files are significantly larger and slower to process than the 6 megapixel ones from my existing camera system.
Drove David to a job interview at Cardiff Gate, while I was waiting for David I called into Asda for a cappuccino and bumped into Paul Howe, one of my former IT work colleagues at Lloyds TSB.
An exciting day spent doing my accounts, nearly fully up to date again! Nowhere near as much fun as the last few days. 🙁
Welsh class this evening, more work on assessments but only one more set to go.
Created the initial album design for Neil and Michelle this evening.
Claire and I went to Caerphilly this morning and visited Caerphilly Castle and then we had a stroll around the town. Claire left at around 5:30 for the long drive back to RAF Marham. 🙁 It’s been lovely having her with us again, she really is like a breath of fresh air.
Here are a few photographs from our visit to Caerphilly.
Neil, Michelle and Michelle’s parent called around this evening to order their wedding photographs and album.
Had a text from Claire at 10:35, she’s arrived at Marham 🙂
Claire and I went to Newport this morning and travelled on the Newport Transporter Bridge it’s a superb way to travel over the river and a real snip at 50p each way. Here’s a photograph of Claire taking some photographs at the bridge.
We then had a walk around the grounds of Tredegar House and then to Cardiff for lunch at KFC followed by shopping at Tesco and a visit to Cefn Parc to take fresh flowers.
We all went to the Showcase Cinema this evening to watch The Hills Have Eyes it has some very good effects.
Some snow overnight so everything covered in white this morning. We had lunch at the Hollybush and then went into Cardiff and visited Cardiff Castle and did the tour, fascinating! Here’s a photograph of the Keep, Claire climbed to the top. 🙂
I upgraded this blog to the latest version of WordPress 2.0.2, it all seems to be working properly but please let me know if you notice any problems. I went over to Caerphilly to do a little shopping this afternoon.