Week Thirty A Thousand Miles Later

That was one heck of a week! I have been first to the Lake District, then to Edinburgh for two nights, visited the Kelpies and drove to Loch Ness. Next day we drove the thirty miles to get around the top of the Loch and did the Full Grockle by way of exhibition, exit through gift shop and even lunch in the café. All before a serious 360 mile slap along the A9 and back to the Lake District for an appointment with a bottle of cold fizzy Cava, a large fizzy bath built for two (yes, even when one was ME!) and a dinky ice-bucket-with-champagne-flute-holder-fitment beside the bath’s controls. These could regulate the air and the extra heating, as bubbles make evaporation increase and the physics of that, cools baths.
I tried the Sony camcorder, whose microphone can pick up my stertorious breathing normally, to film the Great Langdale Beck, that literally flowed past our balcony in the Lake District and it failed, sound-wise. On a fully automated consumer product, a compressor of real power is used by Sony in particular. The river was roaring.
I recall, once leaving my camera at home by accident on a compere job at Car Audio & Security. I borrowed the boss’s Sony phone to film a hair trick and found the sound was awesomely better than the Canon Sx10i could do on video! But my new Galaxy S4 camera is so good, it is almost offensive! I have been taking awesome macros of flowers and getting asked what body and lens combination I am using! One tip, is to use a cover that you can keep over the lens and thus not let it get misted by abrasion. Today’s header shot is a phone cam shot.
Our main ‘˜destination stop’ on our wee UK tour was Helix Park, for the Kelpies in Falkirk, Scotland. Falkirk’s industrial past has links to the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. The world’s most accurate and deadly canon were cast at the gun foundries in the area and the guide, who was brilliant, told us specifically, about how the canon on display there, (that I saw and noticed the origin of) in far off Texas were made in Falkirk – and shipped all around the world. He also told us about the named heavy Clydesdale horses that the Kelpies were modelled upon.
Lots of stuff to do and news to sort but for now, I return invigorated.
Just remember, WINDOWS DAHNTUNES UP!
Adam Rayner On Line Editor