First Thing,

Diana was off to work,

so for myself time to try out the new camera, at last it was not raining, and what better than a bed of crocuses? the first signs of spring in the park, 

back home I had a busy day. preparing two boards for the next photographic competition at the club, 

the first a number of photographs of The Peanut Seller that we used to see whenever we went to the Thepprasit market when we lived in Thailand,

the second panel as they are called at the club, (you can enter 3 to 9 images of a related subject), a study of Busy Bees at Tulleys Farm in Turners Hill, Sussex, we went there a few times when the sunflowers were flowering, which brought me nicely up to my evening, 

read and sherry, the latest issue of Private Eye arriving yesterday, which I followed with, 

a huge chicken curry that Diana had left for me, in the evening after the usual Outback Opal Hunters I decided on a film, 

A Bridge Too Far, a all star cast to say the least, the film features a massive, star-studded cast portraying real figures like Lt. Gen. Brian Horrocks (Edward Fox), Maj. Gen. Roy Urquhart (Sean Connery), and Lt. Col. John Frost (Anthony Hopkins), often with high physical resemblance, and as might be expected it was pretty true to life, the film was considered highly accurate, remarkably capturing the chaotic, failed nature of Operation Market Garden, based on Cornelius Ryan’s book, it utilized military advisors and was filmed at actual location, it was a long film at nearly 3 hours, luckily it finished before Diana arrived home, so it was feet up for a coffee as we watched Have I Got A Bit More News For You, before we were both off to bed.