Aug 07

disorders….

This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings 8 Comments »

This was a bit of a laugh. This is how I scored with various personality disorders – I’m so boring!

Disorder Rating
Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Low
Schizotypal: Low
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: Moderate
Narcissistic: Low
Avoidant: Low
Dependent: Low
Obsessive-Compulsive: Low

Click Here To Take The Test

Via Bekah

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Aug 06

notfication

This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Site News 2 Comments »

It’s taken me a while but now when you leave a comment the “Notify me when someone replies to this post?” checkbox is unchecked by default.

If you want to be notified please remember to check the box.

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Aug 06

lightning

This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings 1 Comment »

I’m at home working and have just sat through one of the best thunderstorms of my life smile

We’ve had at least half an hour of almost continuous thunder with some real belters that shook the windows.

Way cool :vbg:

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Aug 04

saturday night

This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) News 18 Comments »

It’s Saturday night and I’m sitting home alone…….. Loser! lol!

Vic’s in Ipswich for a hen’s night and I miss her 🙁  It’s quite strange – ever since we found out about her being pregnant I worry about her a lot more.

It’s been an interesting day – we had the super six around for breakfast this morning to watch the tri-nations match between NZ and Australia.  The All Blacks had another heart-breaking loss in the last minute.  MacDonald gave away a penalty with time up on the clock and it was slotted away to give Australia the win :glum:  Buggery bollocks!!  This was only partially relieved by Nigel Avery winning double gold in the 105kg+ weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games……………

And it’s raining 🙁

Again

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Aug 01

running (or lack thereof)

This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings 3 Comments »

I haven’t run for 7 days now 🙁

I feel really bad until I look down and see the suppurating wound where once there was heel skin………

I went out on Monday wearing these teva sandals that I got the last time I was back in NZ.  I’ve worn them about 20 times and they always give me trouble – but it was so friggin’ hot and I wasn’t walking far so I thought “what the hell”

Of course as soon as I thought this, life conspired against me and I ended up walking waaaaay further than I had planned 🙁   After a while my heel started to hurt so I bought some sticking plasters to protect it.  Being a hot sticky day of course they didn’t stick and the constant rubbing just made it worse.

After a while it started to really sting. I looked……. it had gone from sore, through blistered, through skin ripped off and into the bleeding open wound stage.

Ouch 🙁

It’s taking a while to heal as well bugger it!

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Aug 01

not much

This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings 3 Comments »

The first three days of the week have passed and have made very little impression on my life……

The weather was v.hot then OK then pissing down.  Typical English summer really.

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Jul 30

brighton films

This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Photography 2 Comments »

Damn it’s hot!  It was 30/86 at 09:00 this morning……….

Well, I got my films from Brighton back and they’re not toooo bad………. I’m even going to get a couple of prints done! :vbg:  This is the first time I’ve got prints done in about 20 films so I’m pretty happy.

The really stupid thing is I thought that the film I bought for the trip (Fuji Provia) was a negative film but it wasn’t it, was a transparency film!  Transparency film is much more sensitive to exposure errors and if you are more than about ? a stop out you’re pretty much screwed (negative film you can sometimes get away with 2 stops either way) The whole point of not shooting my normal outdoors film, Fuji Velvia was that I wanted the latitude that a negative film would give me.  Thinking that I was shooting neg film I was a little less exact in my metering and unfortunately paid the price as few of my shots are a tad underexposed 🙁

Oh well……….

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Jul 30

yet again

This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings No Comments »

Well, another weekend and yet again no entry until Monday!  This weekend was so busy!

On Saturday I travelled to Brighton, on the south coast, to spend a day with the people from my camera club taking photos.  The day was forecast to be overcast in the morning but quite warm which it did indeed turned out to be and the cloud cleared later to turn into a great afternoon.  I met my friends Nic and Adele (the ones I did the wedding photos for) at London Bridge at 08:30 and off we went…….

For this trip I really wanted to slow myself down so all I took was my Bronica ETRSi with three lenses (I rented a 150mm for the weekend), two film backs, filters, light meter and tripod. This camera does nothing for you – for every shot you have to use a handheld meter and make sure that the aperture and shutter speed are set correctly.  I screwed up a few shots by metering but then forgetting to change the shutter speed, d’oh! 

I was in Brighton from 10:00 until 19:30 and took 30 photos! (two rolls of 120 film) Yep, 9? hours and 30 frames of film exposed!  All you users of digicams out there (me included) will understand what a miniscule number of shots this is smile  I’m taking the film in today to be developed and might get a couple of shots I like.

I got home just before 22:00 sunburned (ouch!) and absolutely knackered.  A nice shower, into bed and then up just in time to go to Colin and Gill’s (Vic’s Uncle and Aunt) for a BBQ in Colchester.  The temp was about 30?C/86?F with a gentle breeze to take the edge off.  It was nice to see everyone but before long we were in the car for the trip home.  Got home, went to bed and all of a sudden it’s Monday morning.

My weekend – so busy and it disappeared so quickly! 🙁

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