I Spent The Day Playing With A Few Photographs,

learning more about Topaz,

especially as both Affinity Photo 2 and Topaz were now talking to each other, then some bad news, every few years we send our Nespresso coffee machine back to have it serviced, but this time it had a fault in the steam wand, it is a neat way the company tackle this, firstly on the telephone a technician asks you to turn on the camera on your telephone, he then goes with you trying different things to see if he can fix the problem, but alas even with him showing me how to do a factory reset it did not work, next you pay £100.00 to Nespresso, they pay for a company to pick up the machine, so there goes say £15.00 and to bring it back, say another £15.00 leaving say £70.00 for the repair, all went well, 

out of interest this is our machine, a Creatista Plus model, after a couple of week still no news of the repair, so after a 40 minute 'we are very busy' telephone call I talked to one of the representatives, who told me they could not open the machine to repair it, because the screws had rusted in place, so they would return it to us, so no repair was done, I asked about them send to a part of the £100.00 back, and was told no, even though they had not repaired it, they did not do refunds in these circumstance, but here is the thing, they could not repair it as the screws to open it had rusted in, but they still would not give any refund or even a small credit to buy a new machine, would we buy a new one? knowing the moment you use it the screws, (that should be made of stainless steel) will start to rust so it can not be repaired? Very poor show indeed from Nespresso, I made a point twice of asking the representative to make sure this conversation was being recorded, as they could use it to show how in one easy lesson they can make a lifelong customer leave and go to another brand, £100.00 to tell us it has rusty screws, well screw you Nespresso! After my evening meal a film,

 Anne of the Thousand Days, I had watched it with Diana many years ago, at two and a half hours long it detailed the marriage of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, great attention to detail, thoroughly enjoyable, then a couple of Deadly 60's, followed by a documentary about H.M.S. Burham,

and here she is, HMS Barham shown above at Scapa Flow in 1917, the hour long documentary frequently mention that a cameraman actually filmed the sinking, but the UK government put a ban on showing, as it was thought it would undermine confidence when the country was at war, this was mentioned several times and guess what? the documentary also did not show the footage after making so much fuss that the government did not!

here it is, although many years ago my condolences to all, it was a terrible tragedy, the ship sinking in just 4 minutes, after which I was out to pick up Diana from work as her late shift finished, arriving home a coffee and a chat as we watched a Have I Got More News For You, before we were off to bed.