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Got back from Cambridge today, where I had a very nice very relaxed Christmas, at the house my sister has bought. It's a very nice house definitely feels like her home, and it's good to see her happy there. Was also good to escape all the building mess here too.
There was good food in the usual excessive qualities, and all the usual family stuff. Definitely more than worth the journey there.
My Christmas present plan of asking for things I do not want the hassle of having to acquire myself, mostly worked, but no one is willing to go and investigate phone contracts, even for Christmas (fair enough really). All in all very happy with what I received, and more importantly the gifts I gave seemed to please those who've received them (though I still have a couple of people on Bath, and distant friends to get gifts too).
Lastly, I am now finally the owner of a digital camera (another of those things I did not wish to investigate the purchase of myself), as nice as my old camera is it's good to have a digital one. And it's an impressive piece of kit too (Olympus mu790SW); has a nice interface so I can actually make the best use of it's various features, and not forget about them, and is water and shock proof ideal for occasionally disastrously clumsy me. By water proof I mean designed to be used underwater to a depth of three metres, now not that I foresee myself having much use for that. As I felt it best to risk untimely camera death as soon as possible, I decided to test this by taking a few underwater photos, in the kindly provided environment of my sisters fish tank. Unsurprisingly good composition is hard when the camera and your hands are submerged in a fish tank, and the lack of room means it's hard to get far enough back to get good focus on the fish, but the best of the efforts can be seen in the cut below. Still the camera survived, even if a fish suffered a possibly related tank suicidal tank escape attempt. So should we ever stage a real underwater larp, I'll be camera monster.
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There was good food in the usual excessive qualities, and all the usual family stuff. Definitely more than worth the journey there.
My Christmas present plan of asking for things I do not want the hassle of having to acquire myself, mostly worked, but no one is willing to go and investigate phone contracts, even for Christmas (fair enough really). All in all very happy with what I received, and more importantly the gifts I gave seemed to please those who've received them (though I still have a couple of people on Bath, and distant friends to get gifts too).
Lastly, I am now finally the owner of a digital camera (another of those things I did not wish to investigate the purchase of myself), as nice as my old camera is it's good to have a digital one. And it's an impressive piece of kit too (Olympus mu790SW); has a nice interface so I can actually make the best use of it's various features, and not forget about them, and is water and shock proof ideal for occasionally disastrously clumsy me. By water proof I mean designed to be used underwater to a depth of three metres, now not that I foresee myself having much use for that. As I felt it best to risk untimely camera death as soon as possible, I decided to test this by taking a few underwater photos, in the kindly provided environment of my sisters fish tank. Unsurprisingly good composition is hard when the camera and your hands are submerged in a fish tank, and the lack of room means it's hard to get far enough back to get good focus on the fish, but the best of the efforts can be seen in the cut below. Still the camera survived, even if a fish suffered a possibly related tank suicidal tank escape attempt. So should we ever stage a real underwater larp, I'll be camera monster.
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