April 2014

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Just stop watching

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April 27, 2014

Leica have released the next big thing in German quality control, the Leica T, whose USP appears to be the fact that it milled out of a single piece aluminium. Is it any better than a Sony NEX series camera? Watch this ad, billed as the most boring ad ever...
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Pentax K-3 crazy mirror syndrome

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April 19, 2014

A recent article on the Steve Huff photography site by contributor Amy Medina told a worrisome tale of Pentaxian woe, with the new K-3 DLSR. The article describes the problems experienced with her original Pentax model and a replacement, sent by Pentax. She shares a video of both the complete...
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Precipice of a new world

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April 18, 2014

Bailey ponders another prowling patrol in his new animal kingdom; reminding me of the unusual disquiet of an Edward Hopper painting. Chin up Bailey…
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Last look

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April 16, 2014

Bailey peers over the barricades into the morning light and ponders his impending move to the new house…
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Big Brother is Listening to You!

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April 14, 2014

The gorilla-artist and West Country phantom, Banksy strikes again in Cheltenham, a mere half a mile or so from our house, and a mile or so from its intended target, GCHQ. It’s possibly satirical and social commentary aimed at BT also, with men in trench coats loitering outside a vandalised,...
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Let’s play house

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April 10, 2014

Just to officially document it…we’ve just bought a house, with exchange and completion date of 17th April 2014. Thanks to helping hand of parents on both sides of English and Welsh borders! Bailey’s just happy not to end up in a cattery…or a Tavelodge for a week or so…! That’s...
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Scar selfie

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April 10, 2014

A brief, but enjoyable jaunt over to Budapest, turned into an extended physical, as Rach and I walked the streets of faded Grandure. Beautiful architecture mixed with crumbling stone, faded, peeling paintwork, and wooden framed scaffolding, looking like a set from a renaissance painting. Fortunately after one very long exhausting...
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