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Christmas is a-coming  4

Breaking news: I actually ventured into the outside world today and went shopping! I am currently recovering from my ordeal with a good cup of coffee to drink and a cocker spaniel to stroke.

Mum, my nephew and his mate hailed a taxi and made the arduous nine minute journey into Kidderminster town centre where we bought things, spoke to people, ate food, drank coffee and generally did stuff. The things we bought were expensive, the food tasted crap and the coffee was bitter, but the people were nice.

I saw a guy I used to work with whom I hadn’t seen for a couple of years - we had a quick chat about life, the universe and everything (we talk fast) and then parted company with a smile and a wave. Okay, just a smile.

I bought a few items I was short of that are difficult and/or costly to buy online and made some enquiries into photography related services. To be more specific about the last item: I wanted to know if it’s possible to transfer photos from an APS film that has already been developed onto a CD-ROM - my nephew kindly went into the shop to ask for me (it wasn’t the largest shop in the world and had I entered there would’ve been more than a few injured ankles) and came back with the answer I was hoping for.

Speaking of photography, I bought myself an early Christmas present: a Canon Ixus i7 Zoom. It’s a superb little thing with more bells and whistles than I might possibly need but and determined to get the hang of. That said, it seems to be a shallow learning curve as the menu navigation and mode selection process is near-identical to my original Canon Ixus i. The main major bonuses for me with this new toy are bigger and better movie mode (640x480 pixels at 30 frames-per-second as opposed to 320x240 at 15fps), optical zoom and some kind of “face detection” jiggery-pokery (over two thirds of my photos are of people).

I’ve slowly been uploading all of my saved photos to my Flickr account as a form of backup and to allow friends and family access. All of the people shots are being set with friends-only and/or family-only privacy settings so if you happen to be one or the other then feel free to open your own Flickr account (they do free ones), add me as a contact and I’ll give you appropriate access. Of course, everyone has access to pictures of me or Rocco …

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