How was it for you?
May 27th, 2010 by Keith Chaloner
Driving in the sunshine to Blandford along part of the Tarrant Valley just now was a tonic in itself. Beautiful trees, contented looking cattle with coats shining and obviously full bellies…..life is good. I am on my way to pick up my monthly supply of pills that my nice doctor says I need. The pharmacist asks my name and almost immediately gives me my bag with a smile; and I haven’t shaved today!
‘Did I see somewhere that it was possible to email for repeat prescriptions?’ ‘Yes of course, would you like us to write to you with the details’? Great! I can never remember the number for the dispensary.
This was a good day; enough of the economy. Then driving through Blandford I paused to let someone cross the road at one of the non-crossings and I again thought what a marvellously simple and effective way of sharing a road. What a brilliant idea. I remember having doubts when it was first put in, couldn’t see that working! But it does with knobs on.
Then I remembered that it had been a pretty good week. We are not apparently ‘allowed’ to put up our posters outside of the Corn Exchange before the day of the exhibition. I went to the Town Council offices and asked the nice jolly lady if it would be alright to put them up a few days before. ‘Yes, that will be fine’ she smiled. ‘If you see the caretaker, tell him I said it was OK’.
Earlier in the week I had an email giving information about the photo holiday I am going on next week…..to photograph the White Horses of the Comargue. Among the information was a recommendation about lenses and the suggestion that a second camera body (if we had one) would be good to save changing lenses as the horses galloped towards us! No I don’t have a second body. Could I perhaps hire one locally? No, this wasn’t possible but I could borrow his (the person I had asked about the hire or loan said).
We had ordered the hard wood for a deck we are building in about 10 day’s time; ‘yes it should be possible to cut it in time but delivery may be a problem’ we might have to pick it up (from the other side of Salisbury). Then a ‘phone call this morning, ‘we have to come near you today and can drop your order off’.
Our broody hens have produced chicks. Yesterday the youngest, just 3 days old, got into a pan of water and was completely submerged except for the tip of its beak. It was just about alive, although soaked and cold, when I found it. After drying with a towel it still looked nearly dead. Left on a warm hot water bottle it gradually came back to life and after a couple of hours looked OK enough to join its distressed mother. Today it’s full of beans.
What’s all that got to do with photography? Nothing at all. I hope your week has been as good as mine and it’s not over yet.
Keith
Thank you for this Keith, it made me smile and think yes I to had a good week. We stayed near Corfe Castle for a couple of days and it was worth getting up at 5 to take Kim (my dog!) over Knowle Hill. The first day I had a misty view of Corfe Castle and the second a clear view of Poole Harbour, just what I’d ordered really!
Well Keith, it’s only now that I have logged on since you posted this and I must say that I now feel the better for reading it! Mark you this is not the compliment that it might have been because I’ve had a foul head cold for most of the week and feeling better was the only way to go. I envy your early morning Purbecks experience Marilyn. Sheer idleness stands between me and enjoying similar experiences, maybe I’ll make the effort - - -
Amazing Keith, I thought you have been smiling more than usual recently.
Some days are absolute pigs, from the moment you wake up until you finally get to sleep. Others are rather special, not necessarily in a major way such as winning the Lottery, or the birth of a child, but lots of small things all through the day. Those are the days where you just cannot seem to do any wrong, everything goes well and you end the day thinking …………. “that was a damn good day!”
May we all have many more of them.
Colin