Back once again

We’re back again. It’s been an amazing break, with some fantastic experiences and some good family fun, but we are now trying to combat the return to reality. Filthy weather – the like of which I hadn’t seen since Dublin or Chesterfield – greeted us yesterday when we landed, and that hadn’t improved by the time I headed out for a game of football on a single hour’s sleep. That actually turned out to be a lot of fun.

Today was better, meaning that I could make a start on the mountain of washing that needed to be done, and work on getting the house back shipshape. There’s been a bit of storm damage, the pool needed a bit of cleaning and there are a few issues in the kitchen. Hopefully nothing too massive.

And then on to the shops and then pick the kids up and head out to riding in Hout Bay.
It’s like we never left.

So photos will have to wait for the moment, although of course, there are many hundreds of them.

But don’t worry: just as soon as they are ready, I’ll be sharing them all.

Well, some of them, at least. I haven’t really looked at them in any detail as yet, but in “skim reading” them, they do look a little disappointing. Hopefully there will be a few keepers in there.

But as I said, that won’t be for a while.

Right, so…

Some degree of normality should return to the household this week. With the kids back at school, I will be able to get back into my regular routine including some much-needed gym time (this last fortnight, I have mainly been drinking beer), stuff will get done and I might – might – even get chance to play with the new camera.

A proper photographer, having seen what I had bought invested in, suggested a new lens to go with it (and it looks lovely), but at half the price of the actual camera, that’s going to have to wait. But anyway, it’s not like I don’t already have other stuff to work on: the camera is sitting next to me as I write, and I can see nine buttons on it (of course, there are more, but they’re hiding behind the strap etc). One of those nine is the shutter, and another two of them I already know how to use; the remainder of them mean nothing to me right now.
It’s going to be a steep learning curve. I have a couple of projects that I’m going to working on in the near future, so it needs to be a quick learning curve as well. But hopefully it can still be fun and fulfilling.

I guess that I sign off here, I could even get started now…