Cornell Finch

12 of 12 July 2008

I played! I remembered, had a fantastic day, took approximately 200 photos (we went to a summer fete/carnival) and got home all excited, 11.20 pm, put the memory card in the card reader and guess what. Nada. The photos are definitely on the card but my card reader just refuses to read the card.

Bugger. I will try and come up with a solution tomorrow and get the photos up asap.

Tonight? Bed!

Well, I managed to get the photos off the camera! I found the USB lead and plugged the camera in. So, with a little grandeur (it’s 11.45pm!) I present my first 12 of 12 since January! If you don’t know, 12 of 12 is simply where, on the 12th of each month, you take 12 photos to represent your day. You then upload them somewhere (doesn’t have to be a blog, could be Flickr or Photobucket etc), give a little commentary for each photo and leave a link to the set of photos on Chad Darnell’s[1. The creator of 12 of 12] website so other people can visit and comment if they want to.

The day started with me cleaning my Minis. We were to go to Swanmore Carnival/Fete and I absolutely couldn’t go without washing the cars. I was going to do it last night but I didn’t finish work until 1830 and it was raining. :(

0900: First up, Lilly. She is a 1980 Mini Clubman and new to the family. I have had her for just over a month and have so far managed to do almost nothing to her.

0930: Except change the seats last weekend. I put one of my bucket seats in as I was finding the originals (beige ones, not the ones in the photo) far too bouncy. However, after a week of driving her while sat in the bucket seat, it didn’t feel right. I apologise for the pants quality of this photo.

09:40: So I changed it. These tartan type seats are ones I had in the garage from a previous Mini. Ah, matching, much better!

10:00: Then old faithful, my Mini Cooper called Harvey. I’ve had him 7 years and have vowed never to sell him. Doesn’t he look gorgeous! I have a new grille to go on at some point.

11:30: Now there’s an offer you can’t refuse! We all met at The Brickmakers in Swanmore, joining a number of American muscle cars. We all crowded into the pub and got us our baps. Yummy!

12:15: The obligatory big v little photo. The Fire Truck was originally from Skegness. We followed it for two miles, three mph all the way, onto the fete location.

12:45: Of course, driving at just three MPH means that I can get cool photos like this! The red car in the photo was built by the apprentices at Longbridge using spare bits and pieces. This meant that the car had not been through the main build line it could not be given an age related number plate, hence the “Q” Plate. A beautiful and extremely rare little car.

14:30 One of the displays in the main arena at the fete was bird of prey flying. This is a Harris Hawk called “Hope”. One of his party tricks is to fly really low along a line of people. He was actually moving up (!) and away from the people when I took this. All happened in about 2.5 seconds.

15:00: This is Monty. He’s a mixed breed Falcon (I can’t remember what) that was flying to the lure. I used a friend’s SLR to take about a hundred photos of him. This is the only photo I got with my compact camera.

19:00: When we got home from the show I decided to get some exercise and walk the dogs. Not far from home we have a disused railway line that’s now a footpath called The Deviation Line. The dogs and I walked about a mile further than I first intended. I was listening to a heavy metal play list on my wife’s iPod and missed the turn off. Never mind, the dogs enjoyed it and were knackered by the time we arrive at my Mum and Dad’s for…

20:30: Dinner! Yay Mum! A really nice bit of pork, followed by…

21:30 Trifle! Yay! My excuse for eating it is that I needed to put back some of the calories I’d burned by walking the dogs the extra mile!

I took some video of a brass band playing at The Brickmakers this morning. As soon as I can get it uploaded I will either post it here as an update or in a new post.