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Day 310: Fence alongside a field

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I didn’t fancy the Daily Shoot assignment today, so I took a photo out at lunchtime today. I think it came out well.

Day 309: Hobson’s Choice

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Daily Shoot assignment: "Illustrate choice in a photograph today"

Today I thought I would illustrate Hobson’s choice: there is a choice here of two different car keys… unfortunately they’re both for the same car.

Day 308: White Sky

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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph that features white in a dominant manner"

Well I’ve taken the option to ‘blow out the sky’, if that’s the right expression. It was a perfect sky for this kind of thing – bright with even white / light grey cloud. By overexposing a little bit I was able to make the sky come out virtually white.

As I think I mentioned previously, this weekend we were away at the 21 weekend away. This was at the Asheldham Centre, which was a really good location. It’s an old converted church, and it’s got plenty of character! And fairly well equipped too.

I won’t go through all that we did at the weekend. Suffice it to say that it was very hard work, but I think everyone enjoyed themselves! My session on the Sunday morning was on the topic of “Totally Transformed… Mission”, and that seemed to go down relatively well. There were only two teaching sessions like that, the one on Saturday was about relationships.

Anyway. We were both pretty glad to be heading off after lunch on Sunday! – but then we had to go straight to Ipswich to my Dad’s leaving do. Well, retirement do. It seems a bit strange that after having been a church minister for nearly 20 years, he is retiring just at the start of my theological training. It was quite an emotional day actually, but still very enjoyable. And there were lots of cakes to go round!

Right, I think that’s all from me. It’s about 30 degrees here today so I don’t think I could manage much else. Ciao for now!

Day 307: Flowers

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A nice picture of some flowers. On a day this hot (it’s 29 degrees here, which isn’t THAT hot but given how cold it’s been recently it feels like a massive heatwave) it’s about all I can manage!

Day 303: Flower Droplets

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A white flower on a nettle with water droplets on it.

Day 302: Salt and Pepper

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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photo of a pair of subjects today." Well, the first thought that came to mind was salt and pepper pots! Thought this worked quite well in black and white.

Day 301: Sky

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Daily Shoot assignment: "Make a photograph of water in one form or another today". Well, clouds are basically water aren’t they? That’s what I learned in school at least!

After two and a half years of being a Saab owner, it is with sadness that I have to announce that I won’t be any more. Or at least (hopefully soon) any more: the Saab is up for sale.

We decided recently that it would just be too much to take the Saab to college with us: it’s a nice car, but it isn’t the cheapest to run: when things go wrong, they do cost a fair bit of money to fix. Although we’ve been a bit unlucky with things going wrong, even without that it would still be a bit more expensive.

So we decided to buy a new car, and the perfect opportunity presented itself last week: in the residents association newsletter for the estate, someone was advertising a 2003 Nissan Primera. Perfect.

So, long story short, we gave it a test drive and it seemed fine, we made and offer and then picked it up on Saturday. (I posted some pics on Facebook, if you have me as a friend you’ll be able to see them there.) I drove it to church on Sunday, and then to work today, and it seems very nice: a quiet, comfortable ride. It’s not a Saab of course, but at the same time I think it will do us well for college. Nissans are generally well put together cars and hopefully it won’t go wrong for us. Also, being a 1.8 engine it’s a bit more efficient than the old Saab – I was getting 40+ mpg on the way to and from work today.

So I’m pretty happy overall anyway! The Primera isn’t as much fun as the Saab but it’s a sensible car given our plans for the next few years: it’s big enough to take stuff between Colchester and North London, and it’s (hopefully) reliable enough not to need too much attention while we have it. Oh, and it’s a 5-door, which will mean no more faffing around when giving people lifts! That does grate after a while in a 3-door car. Fortunately we didn’t have to give too many people lifts, but even so it’s annoying!

So that’s our car situation at the moment. Hopefully one day we will be able to go back to Saab, but for the time being the Nissan’s the way forward (provided the way forward is by road).

Day 300: Gas Ring

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Daily Shoot assignment: "Illustrate heat in one of its many forms in a photograph today"

Well this was the first thing that sprang to mind! It’s also the first time I’ve taken one of these pictures, strangely enough. I’ve just never thought of it before. The only problem with this photo is, you can see how dirty the oven top is… try and ignore that 😉