I Had A Very Interesting Day,

it is no secret I am struggling with my new camera,

as it happens another club member has a very similar model, and as a ex-professional photographer knows exactly how his one works, Brian agreed to meet me for a one on one session, so out into a wet, cold day, 

no sign of spring in the park yet, 

we meet here for a 101 class on my,

 Fujifilm GFX100s II, photo credit Andy Westlake, Amateur Photographer, I thought we might sit chatting for a hour or so, but time just flew past, well over 2 hours later Brian was still patiently showing me short cuts, and things my camera could do that I did not know about, some so simple, like by clicking inwards either of the two wheels I could seamlessly toggle the same wheel between aperture and shutter speed, amazing! many, many thanks Brian, I am so glad I joined the Beckenham Photographic Society, and indeed meet Brian amongst others in the club,

in the afternoon I was walking past Foxgrove Lodge on my way home, no signs of the springs buds of wisteria so far, arriving home Diana was getting ready for her evening shift, so I dropped her off at work, then spent the rest of the afternoon playing with my new found skills, or lack of them! After my evening meal I watched a couple of programmes that brought back so many worry free childhood memories, that centred on on a elderly gentleman in his shed in the garden,

his name was Jack Hargreaves, I remember from my school days he would start every programme with a talk about country matters, it could be about horses, thatched homes, carts, ferreting, or my favorite, fishing, from the blurb:

"He was the first man to be filmed catching a fish on television in the late 1950s in the programme Gone Fishing and went on to expand the format to all matters rural in the programme's eventual replacement, Out of Town, which started as a fifteen minute local broadcast in the Southern Region but grew eventually to be a truly national phenomenon as it was taken up by all the regional franchises in the 1960s and '70s".

what more can I say? from the opening theme tune to its close each program was a pleasure to watch, if you have time look him up on YouTube, a real national treasure, after which it was a Poirot until it was time to pick up Diana at the end of her night shift, arriving home it was one more from Poirot before we were both off to bed.