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’s1 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.
- The creator of 12 of 12 ↩
Entries (RSS)
Great pics. I love the doggies walking on the path. :)
ZOINKS! Now that is a dinner, even better when it’s cooked for you :)
Nice to see you back on the 12 wagon Coll.
Fun pics from the fete! Love the one of the mini in the side mirror; that really is a cool shot to manage.
Minis! I love minis! So jealous.
Great car pictures! I like vintage cars. And wow, that bird is way too close to the people lying on the grass for my taste. I’d never survive that. Well, that’s why I’d never lie down for it in the first place. :D Yummy dinner pictures!
That looks like so much fun! I think I just put on many pounds looking at the trifle …
Great photos, love the one with the dogs and the red mini in the mirror, interesting story too. I had a red mini once, it was an A reg.
Oh yay, Mini photos! You’d have got on well with a former boyfriend of mine, who had an old Mini and was forever working on it (not the reason we broke up, I liked the Mini). I love the wing mirror shot of the red Mini, and loved the story of its build and Q plate as well!
And oh, yummy roast and even yummier looking trifle! Plus, cute dogs as always ;-) Oh and I remember seeing a falconry display at my village fair a few years ago - fun stuff to see, and even better if you can get a close up of the birds afterwards!
Yay for coming back to 12 of 12! Missed your contributions :)
Helen (Dogeared)s last blog post..158 - Tissues
Great photos! Thanks for sharing your day.
Great pics, Collin! Pass the trifle - that looks amazing. Love the minis and the hawks. What a great combo!
Great 12 of 12. I love the Falcon photo. I take quite a few here at work (hawks, not falcons). Have to ask… What is a BAP? Here in the states we have a popular sandwich called a BLT which is bacon lettuce and tomato. Can’t figure out what BAP is though. Next time take a pic of it.
Folks - Thankyou so much for all your comments, they are much appreciated!
Hibe - A Bacon Bap is simply a round bread roll (like a McDonalds bun) with bacon in it. I scoffed it before I thought to take a piccie, hence no photo.