Seeing as I teach English, I do keep an eye out for related video material. I’ve come across an interesting documentary which I’ve split into 8 short parts, and will post each day. The topic is the way we (in Britain) used to speak, around a hundred years ago, during the First World War. Plenty of audio, accents and subtitles to help the confused through it!
Seeing as I teach English, I do keep an eye out for related video material. I’ve come across an interesting documentary which I’ve split into 8 short parts, and will post each day. The topic is the way we (in Britain) used to speak, around a hundred years ago, during the First World War. Plenty of audio, accents and subtitles to help the confused through it!
School is out, most people have finished work for a few days, and the party season is well underway! Which is nice. And a little annoying! Mariachis are great. Hire yourself a band and have them play at your home. Which is great. Our next door neighbours brought some back yesterday, and they were really very talented. Which was great. They arrived at 4.30am and played at full volume. Which perhaps wasn’t so great.
Their music inspired the family of crickets that live in our house to burst into song themselves, which added to the din. It’s not something you can sleep through, so we watched Hannibal Rising. The Silence of the Lambs is one of the best books I’ve ever read, but it’s really gone downhill since then. I remember reading the book…I looked forward to my hour and a half commute on the London Underground to my job in South Kensington and the film had its very cool posters up on the walls of every station. He should have retired there and then.
School is out, most people have finished work for a few days, and the party season is well underway! Which is nice. And a little annoying! Mariachis are great. Hire yourself a band and have them play at your home. Which is great. Our next door neighbours brought some back yesterday, and they were really very talented. Which was great. They arrived at 4.30am and played at full volume. Which perhaps wasn’t so great.
Their music inspired the family of crickets that live in our house to burst into song themselves, which added to the din. It’s not something you can sleep through, so we watched Hannibal Rising. The Silence of the Lambs is one of the best books I’ve ever read, but it’s really gone downhill since then. I remember reading the book…I looked forward to my hour and a half commute on the London Underground to my job in South Kensington and the film had its very cool posters up on the walls of every station. He should have retired there and then.
This year I’ve been very good. Mostly. Apart from when I wasn’t, but hey, it’s Christmas. If we can’t overlook minor transgressions at this time of year, then what’s the point?! Anyhoo, I’ve got my list ready. Really I just want a couple of things….
I know I just bought a new camera only a few months ago, but it’s caused me a problem. My Fuji V10 was just meant to be a small pocket camera that I could carry around 24/7. I thought I’d use my much more sophisticated and higher spec Nikon 8700 for special occasions. This is….I don’t. The Fuji is too easy to carry around. It doesn’t take quite as good a photo as the Nikon. But good enough, most of the time. So now I want a camera that matches the Nikon in quality, but has the ease of use and compact size of the Fuji. The Panasonic Lumix TZ23 fits the bill perfectly. Not much in the way of manual controls, but it has a shopping 10x zoom, the 7.2 megapixels offer resolution a plenty, the lens is wideangle….it has a long list of impressive features that would bore you. I want one.
I want a mountain bike too. Paola is the one who really wants a bike, but if she is to have one, then I guess I’ll have to get one too. The more I think about it, the more I like the idea. The Centro Historico is closed every Sunday to cars so that you can whizz around on your bike. I could ride it to Lilly for work too, which’ll save me time in rush hour. Ok, Santa isn’t going to bring me any of these things. I’m getting the bikes, hopefully, in a couple of weeks. The camera will have to wait a month or two!
This year I’ve been very good. Mostly. Apart from when I wasn’t, but hey, it’s Christmas. If we can’t overlook minor transgressions at this time of year, then what’s the point?! Anyhoo, I’ve got my list ready. Really I just want a couple of things….
I know I just bought a new camera only a few months ago, but it’s caused me a problem. My Fuji V10 was just meant to be a small pocket camera that I could carry around 24/7. I thought I’d use my much more sophisticated and higher spec Nikon 8700 for special occasions. This is….I don’t. The Fuji is too easy to carry around. It doesn’t take quite as good a photo as the Nikon. But good enough, most of the time. So now I want a camera that matches the Nikon in quality, but has the ease of use and compact size of the Fuji. The Panasonic Lumix TZ23 fits the bill perfectly. Not much in the way of manual controls, but it has a shopping 10x zoom, the 7.2 megapixels offer resolution a plenty, the lens is wideangle….it has a long list of impressive features that would bore you. I want one.
I want a mountain bike too. Paola is the one who really wants a bike, but if she is to have one, then I guess I’ll have to get one too. The more I think about it, the more I like the idea. The Centro Historico is closed every Sunday to cars so that you can whizz around on your bike. I could ride it to Lilly for work too, which’ll save me time in rush hour. Ok, Santa isn’t going to bring me any of these things. I’m getting the bikes, hopefully, in a couple of weeks. The camera will have to wait a month or two!
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