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Not a whole lot happening at the moment in Cramerworld.  Still no luck on the job front and nothing even on the horizon….. luckily, after a 10 week stand-down, my unemployment benefit started last week Not a lot of money but enough to pay for the rent and electricity.

Here’s just a few thoughts and things that have happened/are going to happen:

? The AB’s lost to England last weekend – booooo. The ref was a pedantic little shit and ruined the flow of the game.  We have Wales this weekend so we’ll see if we can make amends.

? Vic has another driving lesson today.  She’s feeling more and more confident as time goes on (which is the point) and I might even be able to talk her into driving our car soon

? Vic is leaving me! – But only for a few days, phew!  Her Mum is going in for an operation on Friday for her carpal tunnel syndrome. She’s having her left hand done this time and Vic and Max are going to stay with her for a few days.  I’ll miss them 🙁

? David Beckham, one of the worlds most famous footballers has left Manchester United for Real Madrid for GBP 25m.  This now gives RM the following players

Clockwise from top L, David Beckham, Roberto Carlos, Zinedine Zidane, Raul, Ronaldo and Luis Figo. What a line up!

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A 13-year-old Indian boy has begun producing winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body, a senior medical official said Monday.

Doctor Chittaranjan Maity, Medical Education Director of West Bengal state where the boy is from, said doctors found the beetles while examining him for pain in the groin area.

“Doctors were really surprised to see the beetles,” he told Reuters. “There are eggs of the beetle in a fistula in his body and he is getting medical treatment to try to kill the eggs,” Maity said.

The boy had been taken to hospital Sunday after complaining of pain while urinating.

The beetles—more than half a centimeter in length—belong to the Staphylinidae rove beetle family of insects. Most types are predators but some feed on fungi, algae and decaying plant matter.

An expert in urology, Doctor N. Subramanian, said that in theory it was possible for insects to hatch in the body and come out in urine but said he had not heard of such a case.

Just a wee picture of Max.

Shutter Speed: 1.6 sec

Aperture: F8

2nd Curtain Sync Flash

This is what happens when your Mum has a PC

I had Max on my knee and he was staring really intently at the keyboard. I opened up a new text document and this is what he typed:

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His first entry on his 5 month birthday

Want to see the 28 unedited photos all taken within 5 minutes from todays shoot? As you can see loads of rubbish and not really one good one among them.  Blurry? You bet and here’s why:

With a 35mm camera, a 100mm focal length, an apeture of F4 and a subject distance of 0.5m the DOF (Depth of Field or area of acceptable sharpness) is 4mm! So Max doesn’t have to move much to go blurry 🙁

The pages, thumbnail and medium size files were auto generated from a mixture of in-camera JPEGs and RAW files using Breezebrowser

It’s all photo’s this week!  There are three new shots of Max in the Image Gallery – two of them show his new teeth off quite well

Here are the thumbnails (they don’t link to anything)