Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
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A Hot Time In Hawick
by admin - 23:18 on 17 October 2013
Another grey and drizzly day in the Borders so the Pentax and I stayed indoors. So much for the new wave of snappery I'd hoped to ride. Maybe inspiration will strike on the way home tomorrow, especially as I plan to avoid the A9 and return via Braemar.
I went to my last gig on The Great Borders Tour, accompanied by Dee and Don, feeling a bit of a fraud after receiving my results in the 2013 Dingwall National Competition. Total failure. I knew my entries weren't competition standard (although I harboured hopes for a couple of mono snaps) but I liked them. What do judges know? I'm sure somebody was chuntering under his breath after I made my choices last night at Earlston.
Hawick Camera Club proved a fitting climax to the tour when around thirty people assembled in a permanent clubroom in premises down a wynd off the High Street. It even boasted ex-cinema seats. The talk was well received and four books sold, one of them – in as fine an example of coals to Newcastle as you could wish – The Bumper Book of Black Isle Snappery, bought by a Borders woman to give to her friend in Inverness.
The evening's entertainment left Dee so relaxed that she fell asleep in the back of Son of Seat on the way to Gordon. Or maybe that's a compliment to my smooth driving skills.
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