Satisfying Weekend

 

So have spent some time today (Sunday) fishing out some easy Christmas decorations for the office desk ready for tomorrow. With only a few weeks left before I pack up for the festive holidays and doing just 2d in the office each week I have to make every day count!

Found a small crossover tree, a little LED house, wind-up Santa and some glass decorations along with a set of blue USB lights from Poundland.

No doubt the Scrooges will be like Bah Humbug it's too early, but it's never too early for Christmas - they should think themselves lucky there's no music involved!

🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻 🎄🎄🎄 🤶🏻🤶🏻🤶🏻

Christmas Shopping @ Bluewater

 

So this week's Off Friday was spent up at Bluewater with my girl doing some Christmas shopping - mainly toys for a charity collection for a local hospital in Ashford for Julia's work. She did well, bought loads of things, The Works came up trumps mostly with their various deals. Ended up with a couple of large bagfuls of stuff for varying ages. Always a real good feel factor when you are doing something good for someone else!

This is one of the Bluewater Christmas decorations, as usual around the T'was the Night Before Christmas poem/story. Probably saves them money reusing the decs each year!

I'm going to be doing the usual Crisis charity donation this year again and probably the RSPCA. We have so much between us and usually buy what we want so it's good to pass on some of that to those in need be they animal or human 💓

Missing Me 'Ol Mukka

 Missing my old boy Max again today, 20 years ago we lost him and I still miss his company and quiet support. He was my shadow always and life has felt so much more empty without him, always just that little piece missing  🐶 😭

Friday Mooch

 

So Friday morning saw me take a mooch out along to Friston Way with the TG-6, not a bad morning mooching around the field looking for Autumn detail shots.

Struggle with the AF Macro mode but the microscope SCN mode works awesomely well :-)

Used it for the little mushroom (Pleated Inkcap) that I saw peeking out from the grass. Difficult to get down that low and especially with a non-moveable LED screen (the camera is waterproof so no obvious moving parts) but got there in the end. Really pleased with these images.

Spent the rest of the weekend shopping on/off at the Savacentre and Ashford Outlet Centre with Dad and Julia respectively.

Back to the office grind tomorrow, gonna be trying out the latest new bag to carry my stuff in with:

A mere £13.99 on Amazon (where else?) and big enough for a 15.6" laptop and the rest of my bits and pieces. Hopefully not too heavy, and bought a lovely short, rectangular scarf from the Demelza Charity Shop to act as a chest strap, at 50p it was a real steal!

Firework Weekend!

 

Friday evening saw Julia, James and me head down to the local Scouts Hut/field for this year's fireworks event, first time it's been back since 2019!

And what a feel good evening, good company, excellent show and burgers/hotdogs to munch on whilst we waited for the fireworks to start.

This is us waiting for the show to kick off and testing out the phone abilities to take decent people photos at night!