I Had A Slightly Busy Day,

a minor problem with a invoice for the shop, 

which will hopefully be sorted out in the next few days took some time, then time to play with the camera, in a couple of weeks time we will be going to Kew Gardens, for the annual orchid exhibition, every year a country is asked to make a display of the plants of their country, this year it is the turn of China, 

the exhibition takes over the Princess of Wales Conservatory from Saturday 7 February to Sunday 8 March 2026, happily as we are members of Kew gardens we can arrive early in the morning where the house is open for members only, we have booked a slot, so I wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing with the new camera, the trouble being I forgot I could change the IOS in the main camera menu, not on the dials, D'Oh!, 

this brought me up to my evening read, 

'Cheers!', with a glass of milk, I am driving to the club tonight and then picking up Diana, 

I did actually enter 2 prints in tonight's quarterly competition, neither did well, firstly early morning Venice,  

secondly a view of the inside of the Cao Dai Temple (Tay Ninh): Located about 90km from Ho Chi Minh City, the religion called Caodaism, and has it is estimated 4 million followers, swelling to over 6 million if other branches are added, it takes a number of tenants from other religions and includes in its list of saints figures such as the Buddha, Confucius, Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Pericles, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Victor Hugo, and the Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen, these are honoured at Cao Dai temples, along with ancestors, and amongst its hierarchy it has a Pope as well as Cardinals, Bishops, Priests, and further ranks, the church also uses many symbols, I guess most of us have heard of yin and yang, the two forces that balance the universe, this religion is where the symbols come from, we visited there in November 2015, in any event no mentions for either of them, then I was off to pick up Diana, arriving home it was a new one for us, a episode of, 

The New Avengers, it had a short run, 1976 to 1977, it was great fun to see so many actors and actresses as they were all of those years ago, Joanna Lumley looking quite different in Ab Fab for instance, after which we we were off to bed.