So there are going to be thousands .. tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and maybe even millions in a protest march against Brexit?
I find it hilarious that people always use the words "It's a democracy" or "We live in a democratic country!" that goes right out the window when it's something they don't want it agree with.
What I love about this is how the UK Referendum has proved as well as highlighted this.
At the exact same time I've been having this awful feeling that the Brexit we get is not the one that everyone, I do mean everyone, voted for and on two subjects that 25% to 75% of the remainers would want too?
Unless both desires are met there is absolutely no point to leaving Europe at all.
Of course there is the argument that Brexit could be avoided and I only see that being one way. Well the only way that works.
That is if Europe changes its attitudes on both these areas!
Failing that I've still had this uncanny feeling that Brexit won't go through. Not with either of the conditions I outlined and those most everybody agrees with.
That would be a catastrophe. In the worst possible way and things are bad enough as it is! They just aren't showing you. Well according to some people that keep sending me links to stories on the Internet or on the tabloids.
The thing with controlling the news media or the news media avoiding showing us the truth?
Well .. they that control this obviously have absolutely no faith in their plans and ideologies. Because if they did they would not control the media.
Why they control it is they secretly fear and probably know that everyone is pissed off. But that the majority are still concealing the fact. I think that what they fear is that once everyone knows that everyone else is pissed off it might spark something off? Like a civil war or even a revolution? Maybe both? First the civil war and then a revolution? Maybe the other ..
.. oops overseas phone call..
So yeah .. funny how everyone loves democracy when it suits them and then protest when it does not and you could never find a better example in recent history of this.
I also fear that along with this mass scale hypocrisy that giving a referendum to thee people to decide when it is just one way or the other and that the people may choose that which the government and powerful do not want .. now wont ever happen again.
Yeah so back to the old "Well we can do what we want even if NONE of you like it because you voted for us!"
Lol.
Pro-EU activists to stage 'stop Brexit' march during Tory conference http://flip.it/wcjpd6
I see the mainstream media, or at least the BBC, are still reporting on anything that occurs with this inevitably ill fated hyperloop vacuum, magnetised .. pod ... train?
When I first heard about this I thought it was completely bonkers. No that's not changed nor will it ever change. It's bonkers.
It couldn't possibly work the way they described it. I was completely overjoyed when I discovered someone detailing the science and debunking the idea.
I mean the first thing I thought was, well let's leave aside the huge and obviously problem of a vacuum tube with the pressures involved and God knows how many miles long. Yeah let's leave that aside and consider just two things. I could not help but wonder about the issue of heat. Also the issue of Earthquakes.
A sun beating down on mile upon mile of metal tubes will have an effect. Even if it's a very small one .. with the speeds involved and close proximity the the tube walls to that of the pod? Yup .. no. An Earthquake had the same affect but just amplified in movement of the tubes and happening very, very quickly.
Also creating a vacuum in a very large pipe that is hundreds of miles long? That must take a monumental amount of energy? How would they get around that?
Then there were these daft claims about being solar powered as well as the 650mph speeds.
But every daft little test that they do and the speed years they perform get reported on.
The letters test run reached the speed of 192mph and they are celebrating that? Sorry but there have been cars around that can beat that speed and are in physical contact with the ground. But floating on magnets and nor do they have a vacuum tube.
Huh .. I fell asleep two maybe three nights ago when I typed this out and due to the number o things going on, house move, being .. umm investigated, three sets of tools to buy for .. and starting a business, going self-employed in the process, my health conditions, pain and memory problems and .. umm .. oh yeah still going out filming and photographing things with a new and professional camera I am trying to familiarise myself with. Do not know whether I will move my belongings directly to a new home or into storage temporarily .. and .. umm .. ooh yeah going away for a week or two during all this!
Probably forgotten some stuff? Lol.
Yeah the hyperloop?
I love new technology and new gadgets, I really do.
But sometimes I see things that are either just impossible to achieve even on first thoughts, prove to be impossible to create. Yet whenever I read about anything there is always some dastardly plan that involves receiving billions of pounds or dollars.
There are so many chancers out there and so many fake (news), I have a more derogatory word for them, scientists just trying and wanting so hard to be on TV that it is scary.
I also see the powerful and/or world leaders taking forever to meet up and then making decisions based upon bad, unproven or flatly wrong data.
Oddly and during the few days this did not get finished and published .. I see a strange video by an American photographer called Jason Lanier. He showed a video where in a couple of places he was doing a shoot and he was told he had to leave unless he paid $500 for permits on what basically, wll would be in the UK, public land anyway.
In the comments section there was someone called Dana, I think it was, that resolutely answered several times in a very lengthy way to everyone that complained about this and defended the laws. Yes there were indeed laws .. but they seemed to miss the point that they were stupid laws.
I think that what they and a couple others were actually thinking is that Jason Lanier made a lot of money as a photographer and that he was being tight, had a bit of envy if you ask me, and that Mr Lanier was making it worse for the rest of us. They actually made that last statement which I thought was weird.
Who exactly is 'the rest of us'? Because it is abundantly clear that anyone just shooting with a camera, say like a tourist, is OK and will not be bothered. If your not a tourist then you are a photographer, even if it is just a hobby there is always a point that if you stick to it long enough and have a good eye for a picture .. you become a professional or at least semi-professional photographer.
In one place in the video the guy asking him questions was actually polite, unlike the previous guy who was a fucking selfish and rude half-wit. Yeah? Disagree? Yeah well after saying that he did not have thirty minutes to hang around to prove to himself that the shoot was not a commercial one and after Mr Lanier not answering the question of when he will leave this dumb-arse then said "Right, well I will stay here until you do!"
Now if it were me .. I would have sat in my car for thirty minutes, got out and gone over to him and then said "Right, you said on camera, dumb-arse, that you did not have thirty minutes to watch and check us over thirty minutes ago? YOUR STILL HERE?! I am now going to sue your arse!"
Now this is something I never would have thought would occur in the UK and indeed some UK based comments stated that it did not. Until someone that lives near the River Thames commented that him and a bunch of other people with cameras and tripods down by the river from 1am to 3am taking pictures of an eclipse of the moon, I think it was, were told to leave. Because they had tripods. You cannot take those types of pictures without tripods. Worse still is they were taking pictures o the fucking moon!
It gets worse .. one chap was actually from California and had flown all the way to London just to take a picture of this eclipse with Big Ben as part of the scene! Yeah he was a little pissed .. understandably. Lol, poor chap!
The number of comments about this ongoing thing in America that included the line "The Land of The Fee" was hilarious. It also seems that if your brave just a little bit you get charged? Lol.
Personally and if it were me I would have told each of these arseholes to fuck right off and that is after belittling them and giving them a lecture about common sense and that the government do not own everything and therefore charge a fee for everything. Nor do they own a moon or any of the scenery.
I am going to pause this here but .. I am going to try to think of some very obvious problems with this charge for everything attitude. I did think of some the other night but have forgotten them! Lol.
Where so you draw the line? Also like a great many people said .. if they are now doing this, what will be next? Yeah the comments of charging for air were a bit over the top but it is creeping ever closer to that kind of thing. I mean as far as being ridiculous is being concerned it is not that far off.
As an argument someone said "So when a big multi-million dollar movie is being filmed and my house is in it, technically they owe me money?!" and this .. defenders argument was to say "Well most people would say "Hell Yeah" to their house being in a movie". What? That's your argument? I really could not stop laughing when I read it or their repeated postings of the law to prove their point.
Just because it is the LAW does not make it right as their are a lot of idiotic laws and neither does it not make it ridiculous.
Before I pause and go off somewhere consider this .. each time, as it appears to have been for time in memorial, a law is passed this law has to bee enforced. That means more people, more courts and more lawyers and look where that has gotten us?
Wanted to work on this one for some time now and not sure I'll get it all done tonight? No I am sure I won't get it all done tonight.
Hmm are you working, being paid but not buying, planning to buy or already bought your own house?
Paying your wages/salary to someone else who already owns more than one house? So your paying someone who is already way wealthier than you even more money. Making them ever more richer?
Guess what, your a slave. It's just very well disguised.
It's not only gone unnoticed it's got far, far worse as unless you spend a significant amount of money, around 80% of the goods sold (electrical) is faulty and has been used by someone else. How long for in each case is anyone's guess.
Maybe the original purchaser dropped the item or knocked it and damaged it and then returned it? But they would normally state it was already damaged and faulty and that's why they are returning it.
In which case you would think it would be tested? Well I hear they are supposed to and someone told me this was by a company that Theo twat owns.
Wow. That trait of the public services employing idiots really is catching?!
So it's used. For how long we don't know. What we do know is ..
Hmm .. let's use some reverse psychology?
Everyone says you should never buy a brand new car. What reason do they give you when you ask why?
'Because it loses 50% of the value a soon as you drive out the showroom!' is what you are invariably told.
Funny then that this reselling of used goods had been reported on even in one instance by The Guardian tabloid way back in 2003-5?!
So why in 2017 is still going on?!
Why hasn't anyone done anything about it after more than 12 years?
Why have the tabloids and TV mainstream news stayed away from this story all this time?
It's like all the other stories they seem to ignore while shovelling shit and wireless news stories for the most part at us?
You see they all acted like they read in shock on the House of Commons when the recession was announced to be incoming. But .. I couldn't shake this feeling that the shock was.. manufactured. Or fake, on other words.
"We will never be allowed to get away with halving everyone's wages. Fuck me they can't afford houses as it is. I know .. let's buy everyone's turned and faulty crap and sell them that at full price. Better still, through mail order catalogues we make even more on the monthly payments and interest. Yeah-yeah .. we will call it an overseas desk and get a holiday in Japan, China or some other country and my naive public will fucking pay for that too! Yeah, let's fucking do that!"
So you can't afford to buy your own home, so what's the fucking point in a career, and tour buying faulty crap?
What was your salary again?
Would you now like to go away and recalculate that salary?
As I said .. slavery. Just very cleverly hidden form of slavery.
I think that all politicians do not plan to be living in any European country, including Britain, in a few years.
Yeah now that I think about it .. they must all plan to live overseas. Except .. the reason for leaving is because of what they have done. Or are in the process of doing.
Destroying their own countries.
They are still doing it .. fuck the news media reports. What they are showing us is not half way near enough. What they are also not doing is showing us everything.
What we get is their truth.
The truth the suits them.
Bizarrely many of those that they have told you about were stolen from this very blog!
This used to be very often and I would get people point out they had stolen another story!
However though it still occurs it has slowed down a hell of a lot.
Any thoughts as to why this might be?
Umm .. hmm now let me fink?!
Oh-oh-oh! Maybe it's because I haven't published anything in the last two years plus?! Lmao!
Well .. that might just change?! *Wink Wink*
I have the odd person both online and off it state to me that the country is about to collapse.
I get shown a few links that has a story of something going down somewhere in the UK and I can understand them. Yeah .. out looks pretty bad as it is and then there is this other crap going on you don't see in the mainstream media.
They often think it's imminent.
I do not.
I do, however, think that's it's inevitable. Just not .. imminent.
Then I think of the other bad things. That a bunch of people with too much money, power and influence took away the basic human and legal rights from a large majority of the UK. So they can look good to naive fools for saving money when it was all achieved at the cost of many innocent lives.
Not forgetting years of absolute torture, fear and pain.
Funny that, is it not? They can torture you and turn your life to hell but .. no euthanasia though?
Fucking blind, arrogant and ignorant fools who will no doubt consider themselves to possess higher intellects. Yeah .. that's not how intellect works you bloody fools!
I digress.
I've gone around the houses here to make a point.
That point is what fucking fools knowingly destroy their own country that their families and descendents have to live in. I mean they works have to be the biggest, dumb-arse idiots of all time. All those names of all those politicians and civil servants and such like. All of them and an ever growing list of famous fools. All of them with their pictures bound for the pages of future history books .. fools? See here!
Ergo .. everyone must be planning to move their entire families out of the UK to maybe Australia?
Or the most selfish and amoral people have been allowed into jobs and careers of power they should never .. have held?
Simple .. deductive .. logic.
Well? Only two remain. Which of those two remaining possibilities is the right answer?
Lmao!
My answer to the worst crimes of paedophile rings and slavery?
Straight after posting about the fecking incompetence, naivety and stupidity of the government and public services someone mentions this in the news?!
SOMEONE MENTIONS THIS IN THE BLOODY NEWS?! THE MAINSTREAM NEWS?! BETTER STILL THE BLOODY BBC?! LMAO!
Well it's a start.
A start that's twenty five years too late no matter how you look at it.
They had better be able to lay their hands on some bloody big shovels.
Although this inbuilt fear is referred to as 'cultural sensitivities'. Cultural sensitivities?
That's the fucking understatement of the fucking millennia!
I wonder if the revelation of the slavery report when they are still unraveling the paedophile rings, plural though they have both been quiet for many months, made someone come out and say it?!
But then maybe the not so blind, naive and stupid see this as a way of getting their careers to leap several tiers at once?
I would.
So I imagine others works too?
A chance to propel themselves into the limelight and doing something positive for the British people for a change?
Nahh. We could never be that lucky.
But then .. my luck of changing and along with being right in the middle of a shed load of restructuring .. I'm also weeks away from starting a long string or reveals.
Yeaaah I've not been stating too much about what I've been doing. Other than the .. big purchases I've been making, I've been to to other things for a very long time. Also something was spring upon me that I'm going to turn into a weapon.
Let's just say that a very, very major public service consisting of two household names and linked to a third has tried to fuck me over.
They are right in the middle of fucking me over and we are taking hours away instead of days.
Unfortunately for them there is a whole bunch of paperwork that's going to expose them if they insist on continuing along their present path. I can say that the documentation will be the least of their concerns.
The one thing you do not do is allow me to ask some very awkward and some trick questions.
The awkward and the tricky are never, ever obvious and quite the opposite in fact.
It was annoying but weird when it happened. I was not only led into a trap but I was also blatantly lied to. Twice. By two different people and within twenty minutes of each other?!
I pulled both of them in turn and explained the truth to them.
One looked away and shrugged her shoulders.
The other said "Oh I'm just giving you an example" to which I answered "Well try a correct one!"
To add to the mystery .. she was talking on the very thing she lied about.
Hmm funny how I was lied to twice in twenty minutes by two women?
Huh, do you think that they thought it would be a good idea to hire women because they are good liars? Lol.
Hmm .. come to think of it .. they are all women there. Oops .. no, there is one guy I can think of. I have never spoken to him though.
Huh? Now that I think about it and never have before .. much of the public services staff seem to be women??
That's funny I thought there was supposed to be some problem with women getting cushy jobs?!
I bet all the staff working in the sewers are women too? Oh .. no .. wait?
Absolutely no problems to controlling the housing market, not modernising and ancient and outdated system and taking away the welfare state.
Placing both disabled and poor people on the street .. according to their own words over the years there are no fears to sleeping on the street.
Coming from organisations that think themselves as being very left, politically. Yeah, no problems whatsoever.
Oh wait ..
There is slavery and not only does it exist, as just one threat of many to everyone, but they bite claim is in every major town and city?!
Huh?! I wonder if any parallels will be drawn with the paedophile ring problem?!
This is what you get when a far left attitude, which largely consists of blindness, naivety and stupidity, affects and infiltrates the government and public service sector.
Someone has to make the sacrifice and it's not those in the public service sector our government. It can't be those where the government or public services can be given that 'R' word label they fear so much.
Well .. that only leaves one, doesn't it?!
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: Modern slavery and trafficking 'in every UK town and city' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40885353
Well I am now up to a total of two, though technically three, lenses for my new Sony A99 II DSLT camera!
After purchasing the camera and a 70-200mm f28 lens and after what was a screw up for the second time in this order process .. and after racing down to Sussex with one brother, one niece and one very young nephew I ended up picking up the stuff I had ordered that their web page screwed up. Lol.
I noticed the problem with the order immediately and emailed the store and they ssaid that it was OK and that the order had gone through.
The following day I was told it was held back due to an item being out of stock. This was frustrating as the main part of the order was the lens and a very expensive one at that, though to be fair there are others out there a lot more expensive than this one and on my wanted list too! Annoying as the item out of stock was a 8ml bottle of sensor cleaner that I did not actually need straight away. Just ordered it just in case there was a mishap.
They offered to split the order but the next day when it was originally due to turn up I had another email to say that there was an error when I ordered it .. the same error they said was OK!
So at 3pm in the afternoon I text my brother about it who had been enjoying a day off and he said "Why don't WE go down there now?!" So we did.
It got worse as after getting the order together their computer said "Do not take payment" lol and they did not know what it meant. Turned out it was for them upstairs because for all they knew I did not have the funds to pay for the items.
So .. the store was Park Cameras, in Burgess Hill in Sussex, and if you want to order from them online .. do NOT do it using Google's Chrome ass I realised that this was where the problem lies .. when a phone number of theirs did not display properly.
Nice store. Very nice store and plenty on display, though if your into Sony gear apparently Sony are revamping their Sony cabinets.
Saw the new Fuji medium format camera in there, GFX-50 is it?
Got talking to an older and friendly chap about Nikon and Leica and a bit about camera history. Yeah I might technically be new, like one idiot comment seem to insinuate, but my first SLR was a Minolta X-300 and that was a current camera when I owned it.
My first digital SLR was a Canon D350. But I never used it to its full potential and a friend's wife bought all my gear off me. Oooh yeah I was building a mountain bike that ended up in What Mountain Bike Magazine. Based on a Litespeed Ocoee Titanium frame. Sorry . could not remember why I sold it at the time. Taking a camera out with me on a bike had not occurred to me at the time but then I did not reckon on cycling so far I was actually getting to some neat nature spots and would find orchids too?!
Anyway .. after leaving Park Cameras we decided to go to Ditchling Common which was an old haunt of ours when we were kids. I used to live in Brighton for a bit to when a teenager and used to cycle to Ditchling Common. Vera Lynn used to live not far from there.
Of course as is the norm for me and has been this way since I bought my car . the weather was utter crap and it actually started to rain as soon as we got out the car at Ditchling.
Oh and I had one of my funny .. turns. I have mentioned this to my GP and for so long now I have now mentioned it to two GP's. I also mentioned it very recently because it is sparked off by being in a vehicle but only trains thus far. I do not travel very far on my own due to my health conditions anyway, or at least didn't before buying a car. But I did catch a train once a week to go just two stops and sometimes I was OK and other times it would suddenly feel like the train was falling through a hole in the ground and I would grab a hold of a bar in a knee jerk lie reaction.
I had been OK on the journey but had forgotten to take the pills for it. He missed a roundabout exit and he then nearly took a wrong one and jerked the car to the right and WHAM! No we did not hit George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. Their was like a slow motion feeling it kinda felt like .. or like there was a tiny delay in my ight or something and boom. I grabbed a hold of the door handle and was uttering "Oh shit! No-no-no!"
Now for an examplee of my short term memory issue..
I would have given anything to not have felt like that or to make it go, it did but took about 20 minutes and once we were back on the M25..
Except after I got home I remembered that I had the effing pills in my bum bag the whole effing time and is what the damned bag was bought for!! Go figure!
As for the person that commented on my mistake and was probably the on that gave me my first vote .. aa down vote! Feck you!
I fucking hate instant experts and fanboys. The funny thing is when I looked into how I made the error .. it looks like that the only fucking difference between the model lens I called mine originally and the real thing only had one, or technically two, differences. One has a 'M' after the 'G' and a gold 'G' label?! Yesss technically one is an E-Mount and one is an A-Mount lens.
But I kept thinking to myself "Jesus Christ, has fanboyism gotten so bad that they are even turning against products produced by the same company that produced theirs?!"
And just when I thought things could not get any sadder than they already were?!
Sorry but your not tech people at all. I see this everywhere and in computing it is AMD v nVidia or AMD vs Intel and in cameras it is Nikon vs Sony or Canon vs Sony or Fuji vs Sony, one moron likes to do all three. Then there is gaming and it its XBox against PS4 or both of them against PC gaming. Even in the game titles you get it. It is fecking madness.
What makes it worse is the morons that do it fail to see that they are morons and not tech enthusiasts are experts of any kind! Lol.
What with all that and the Social Justice Warriors, the left versus the right and all the fake news crap and the convenient mainstream news reporting and I cannot help but wonder where the world is heading to?
Anyway here is an unboxing video of my latest lens ..
I have been buying
things that have all been planned and agreed upon with several people
.. official people .. so to speak.
Only .. right in the
middle of all this and with an extremely large upheaval of my
personal life mere weeks away and a trip away for a time being only
days away .. something has changed.
Someone .. or I should
say one of the agreed parties has thrown a spanner in the works!
This is an organisation
that anyone with a brain dies not trust and they have .. changed
their stance somewhat and this will be .. eye opening to many. I
cannot say much more about it right now because even this is in flux.
Now I will tell you
this ..
In the space of thirty
minutes I had two separate people speak to me. One was face to face
and the other was over the phone. Yup .. within ten minutes or so of
speaking to one person a different one calls me on the phone.
I will also tell you
this ..
The one that I spoke to
face to face lied to me.
The one that I spoke to
on the phone also lied to me.
I am also going to be
self-employed from the 1st September and that is only a
few weeks away.
I also have to go away
and that is mere days away.
I have a mountain of
things to buy and a mountain of things to do.
Now this would
otherwise be a nightmare because of the health conditions I have but
as far as the pain is concerned this has gotten a lot easier.
As far as the getting
too hot is concerned this has gotten a lot easier and it has cooled
down at night due to it being late in the year so that has become
easier.
This is because I have
now owned a car for the last week or so.
Unfortunately it does
not help with my memory problems. Nor any one of the other dozens of
things it causes. Luckily most are not constant. Thank the stars for
that.
Plus I am having some
.. psychological issues over everything I have to do .. kind of a
mental block combined with .. a little trepidation, or nervous. It
does not make sense and I do not know why this is but then the brain
is a much complex thing. Plus my Fibromyalgia seems to mess with it
as it does so many others.
Yeah so what is going
to make things worse for an organisation well reported to lie and
cheat is thee fact that I suffer from a registered disability. On top
of that is my right knee issue and along with the pain and memory
issues there is also the high blood pressure issue.
I was not even sure I
was OK to drive again but when I last asked my GP he said it was OK.
But then as I know that the NHS have tried to lie on patients medical
notes and certainly have mine so surely have others .. this answer
might just be part of that?
This is something I did
not consider in the past and every now and then I have wondered how
many people have had car accident because of health conditions that
the NHS have lied about? It must be a significant number and I dread
to think it I could be really big.
Also a wrong readout on
the car's computer did not seem to be much initially but then I went
and read something on a forum about one owner of my Land Rover having
to change an engine because of ignoring this warning?! Did not make
sense and no one backed it up because it is to do with the coolant
level. I went and bought coolant because I naturally thought it was
low due to the computer warning. Opened the bonnet and I was
surprised to discover it was full. No problem then. Faulty sensor
that can get fixed when I service the car next. Then I read this
owner writing that he lost an engine because of it and I did think
maybe it did get low and he did not watch the engines temperature
gauge?
Then I read something
in the same forum about some kind of ball being inside the top up
bottle, tank, and someone said something about it sometimes blocking
a pipe. That .. would bee problematic! But even so if a blockage
occurred it would raise the engine temperature! It is an engine
coolant system, nothing rocket sciencey about it. Water goes round,
if it does not then things get hot. Lol.
Still .. as I have not
driven for a very long time it did get me worried about both breaking
down and buying a new engine!
I came into some money
.. I did not win the jackpot n the lottery and the money is not
endless. It would not buy me a house anywhere, nor a flat in case
your wondering. Not even far, far away from London. Unfortunately. Or
I would have done that!
Being homeless is my
biggest fear and I have had this fear six or seven times in my life
and people with Fibromyalgia feeling fear? Or at least some of them?
It is not good and is most certainly not nice, trust me on that. Look
up 'Rubber Legs Syndrome' and a detailed explanation on that and how
it comes about will make many realise how effing horrid it is. That
is just one .. thing out of dozens.
So I am awaiting emails
to find out how much it would cost, how long it would take and if I
can ge it done before I go away.
Since being asked to go
to a certain building TWICE in a week .. I have had two days of
deliveries turning up and have a third on Tuesday.
I am also out
practising and familiarising myself with the tools I have had
delivered, see below.
So this is what I have
now acquired since the car was purchased ..
Sony A99 II DSLT
Camera
Sony G Master
70-200mm f2.8 Lens
LowePro Toploader
Holster
LowePro Whistler
Backpack
Carbon Fibre
Tripod (instead of the usual expensive ones I went for Amazon one at
£75)
Benro GH2 Gimbal
Head (Basically a swing like contraption goes on tripod)
That is not quite all
and all I can think of right now.
That also only includes
one, damned heavy, lens. You
cannot do everything with one lens even if you specifically only
photograph in one subject area. Most people have more than two lenses
and professionals normally have dozens. Though dozens are not needed
but at least five are .. though two of these are out of reach. At
least for now and the immediate future because the combined total of
just these two is £17,500! Yeah .. I know. Lol. Unfortunately there
are cheaper alternatives but these have recently been discontinued
and I only found out last night. You also cannot buy them in the UK,
at least not for my cameras mount design. Though a very top store in
New York was selling them, B&H Photo, but last night only had
used ones and suddenly the discontinued notice was up I had never
seen before. Bah humbug!
The
combined cost of the two lenses new? Knock £10,000 off the combined
total of the two Sony lenses above and you would get both! Those
above are the Sony G Master 300mm f2.8 and the Sony G Master 500mm
f4. The other company is Sigma, same focal lengths and apertures and
looks like same objective lens size too. They look almost identical
.. except the Sonys are white and the Sigmas are black.
I
also had not considered all the other things too and I have had to
buy two very large SanDisk memory cards as well as a lot of cleaning
tools, like for sensor cleaning as well as lens cleaning. I would not
want to buy anything cheap in the way of cleaning stuff with stuff
this expensive. Even so I did not expect the little bottles holding
8ml of fluid to cost between £20 and £40 when you get cheap crap
for a couple of quid on Amazon. Again .. you do not take the chances.
This
also does not include the fact that I have to buy new computing gear
too and I need to build a new PC and I will need a laptop.
This
will need to be able to deal with photo editing on very large files,
the cameras is 42 Mega Pixels, as well as 4K video. These things take
as much power as you can throw at them, especially video editing and
especially so in 4K resolutions.
I
have not oredered a single thing yet for the PC build because .. well
.. I also have to move house and this was also all part of the plan.
A plan that I was completely open with to all people.
Except
one organisation who had been nagging me for months have now gone and
thrown this spanner in the works. Right in the middle of everything
and they have lied twice already. In two ten minute conversations.
Everyone
told me to lie to them, even a right wing guy that curiously does not
agree with having a welfare system! I did not want to do that. Except
.. well .. I would tell by the body language that they already knew
anyway. Or at least it had been flagged.
I
spoke to thee right wing guy saying that they had already been told,
I had forgotten about them myself. This was because they already
knew! He said, yawn .. once again second guessing wrongly but
insisting upon his views, that I must hav told them or they found out
from this blog. Umm .. I never said anything about receiving anything
on my blog and .. well like I told him dozens of times, they already
effing KNEW! I had been on a course to start my own business.
REMEMBER! Lol.
Also
if you recall I also applied for a loan with Newable through this NEA
course thing which I was turned down for? Yeah that was for £25,000
that I intended to pay back within a month or two .. exccpt they
turned me down and so starting my own business and gong self-employed
got delayed once again.
The
funny thing is I only started it because of two things .. one was
they were unfairly pressurising me at the Job Centre under Job
Seekers Allowance they WRONGLY forced me onto and I was not getting
anywhere looking for a job 35 hours a week. Yeah .. do not lose your
job because they insist that you carry on doing a full time job
looking for another full time job. You have to put the things you
have done on their website using an account. Nothing wrong with that,
per se, but .. you have to put loads of things .. more than the
number of jobs for what you want to do you can possibly find
advertised. You better believe it.
No
they do not want to HELP you get a job .. they just want to stand
behind you with something that ends up feeling more or less like the
proverbial whip! I kid you not.
I
was on Universal Credit, again WRONGLY, for 5 weeks or so before
being transferred over to JSA and within two weeks they were
pressurising me about starting my own business. As soon as they
realised just how many areas I am knowledgable in. Plus I would like
to try my hand at some manufacturing too. More tools and these were
included in my plans as a completely different facet to everything
else.
Blogging on
a dozen subjects (could add more)
Photography
YouTube
Manufacturing
.. Cases
There
might be others but the camera gear would help with most, if not all,
the blogs and the YouTube channel.
Oh
.. did I mention that I only received half the money I was supposed
to because someone stole over £300,000 of the estate and that their
siblings and mine want me to be the one to take them to court?
Remember
that even without the pains and psychological stuff I do have those
short term memory issues and as you can see I have a mountain of
things that I have to do!
But
the spanner throwers do not give a shit .. government basically and
government doing as government does. Fucking people over. Jesus what
a shit country this has become and it is getting worse. I am still
receiving messages that the UK is going to collapse any day now.
Still waiting. Lol.
However
.. there is a very important question I have to ask if they decide to
put any force on turning the spanner. They had better think about
their answers very, very carefully. Because to different answers
simply wont qualify. In act it will look so bad .. I would not want
too be them!
Why
do these public services lie and cheat? Do they not know they they
always get found out in the end? Even if the government try and tie
up the news media it often grows so huge that the news media cannot
ignore it any longer. Because if they do it will look obvious ..
though most people with even half a brain have long since realised
that the mainstream media either lie or are ignoring stories at the
request of certain .. parties.
Ooh
.. I just remembered I am supposed to talk to an SEO company about my
blogging?! Damn it!
It is funny the effects that success has on people and of course that have not even had any success but are which involved.
I noted that several people on YouTube I take note of reported that JK Rowling, the author of harry Potter in case you had been living under a rock, attacked Donald Trump again. Only this time it blew up in her face. Then she .. kinda did summat and .. it blew up in her face once again. Or at least it is in the process of happening. Blowing in her face that is.
This is because she ranted at Donald Trump over a video she posted in which she claimed that Donald Trump shunned a disabled boy in a wheelchair . at some event or other.
Only it turned out that not only was this not true but that Donald Trump actually spoke to the boy and even leaned down at his level and shook his hand and chatted for a few minutes.
Then .. umm well JK Rowling issued something of an apology .. to the child's mother!
Right hang on in there it gets a little confusing.
Now the child's mother saw or was told about this rant by JK Rowling and posted a tweet or something on social media requesting someone pleas inform JK Rowling that her claims were untrue.
So JK Rowling then deleted her tweets, lol really bad show, and then issued an apology to the child's .. mother?!
Yeah, I thought I has missed something too! No apology to the one hat she falsely and was libellous in claiming what she did on social media.
Yeah .. you would think such a successful author would have more intelligence than that, would you not?
She then makes matters even worse by making the apology to the wrong person.
#facepalm
Oh .. dear .. God.
How does getting extremely lucky with a series of successful books make you an authority in a bunch of different political areas?
How does she not realise that with the follower and fans that she has how damaging any accusations could be and the possible backlash she could get from it?
I heard she already cheesed off a bunch of her own fans by suddenly becoming politically correct, it's fashionable don't you know? Well the trouble with these new and old successful types is they always seem to start talking like they had their head in a bucket for the last decade or two?
I think it is because they work s much with the mainstream media they pick up that being politically correct is fashionable and give it a go to make themselves more popular and even remain relevant?
It gets even better is she starts to spout stuff about her sensitivities regarding disabled people and uses that as a guard. Yeah, that is how it looks to me like she is saying "Please do not sue me, I have strong sensitivity issues and maternal feelings regarding disabled people"
Yeah?
Well there are a lot of disabled people who have died, JK Rowling and I suggest you check out Calum's List, if you dare? Also .. well as some have stated before me .. I hear you have several mansions? Well you would always house disabled people in them and provide services and have those support people also live in these premises?
Oh nooo ... wait a minute .. people are already waiting for you to start housing the immigrants you are supporting to come over here?
Silly me.
Good God .. does she not have a manager calling her after each of these outbursts yelling at her to shut the fuck up?!
It would seem that she has not.
She may well not be alone in her delusions of grandeur but sh does certainly seem to be one of the loudest and one that loves to go on a rant?
Crap! I was supposed to post this several days ago .. ooooh it must have been that morning I got ''the call? Lol
I .. I didn't know whether to laugh out very over this.
Scientists have just figured out that ice melts at different speeds.
Because of Algae.
Umm .. forgive me if I'm wrong but haven't we had scientists on areas of large amounts of ice all over the world for bloody years? Decades even?
They have only just figured out that algae grows on ice and this absorbs more heat from the sun and therefore it melts more rapidly?
I love the way they reported to viewers that algae are tiny plants?! Lmao!
Oh dear oh dear.
Would it be safe to assume then that they have also not factored in what would happen to the speed the ice was melting of a volcano dumped ash on it over several square miles?
Ooh I bet then they have not considered could occur if a whole series of volcanoes erupted and dumped ash on several different large areas of ice??
Oh dear.
It's funny I say that as it stays fresh in my mind that there had been a flurry of volcano activity recently.
Dark ice melts faster? Jesus Christ! All the bloody funding for all these years and .. dark ice melting faster has just been discovered?!
I've been avoiding buying black shirts and sports vests for bloody years.
I wonder if I should provide them with my email in case they want any other glaringly obvious answers that I wouldn't even consider to be scientific?
Other breaking news: Water is wet too.
It's funny as the very first thing I thought of after I managed to get over this stupid science report? It was the possibility of the right number of volcanoes going off in a short enough period of time that dumps volcanic ash on just the right amount of ice.
I mean if you think about it .. volcanoes don't have to be in the immediate vicinity of any permanent ice sheet. The particulates rising high enough and getting blown by winds going on the right, or wrong depending how you look at it, direction?
Algae? Hmm .. yeah it makes a difference but whether it's to a degree that's significant to us is another matter. Because just like plants algae, or at least the types I am familiar with, need food.
Nutrients.
Take a guess where you can get nutrients from for plant life? I'll give you a clue .. the land surrounding these things are always the most fertile? VOLCANOES!
LMAO!
How long do you think it would be before the penny drops?
Ooh boy .. have things
been bloody strange the last few days!
After a very long pause
and a very high premium on things .. I am uber mobile once again and
I am just re-familiarising myself with driving once again.
In case you missed it
.. I purchased a Land Rover Discovery.
Now there is one vry
main reason that I bought this car and that was for its off-road
capabilities but there were a few other reasons. I had always wanted
a Land Rover and think Range Rovers just too big and Freelanders too
small. Also the latter are more problematic. In fact with Land Rovers
it works out a little weird as the smaller they get the more
unreliable they get. At least that is how it used to be.
I used to work for
them, or rather Stratstone of Mayfair to be precise.
Also a very weird thing
happened the other day .. I was heading for Broxbourne Woods to take
some photos and shoot some video. My GPS took me to Bencroft Wood, I
think it was called, and I thought I could walk to Broxbourne Woods
from there but no.
On returning to the car
I heard someone shout “What are you here for?!” and as I turned
to explain what it is that I do a familiar face was smiling at me.
Someone who is an 'old mate' I first knew when he was about 14 or 15
who is now a father of several children and has been a Policeman for
20 years or more.
What were the chances?!
We chatted about
wildlife, history too as we were on the site of an old Roman road and
of cours Land Rovers. He said that he used to have a Freelander years
ago and I said I remembered. He reminded me of the issues with it but
he then stated that many of the issues were with the petrol versions
and the diesels were OK. My time at Stratstones was too long ago for
me to remember any ratio of problems. But I did remember that two
that had been continuously returned to us was a petrol driven
Freelander and Discovery.
Since I bought the
vehicle I have been struck down with a number of things, though this
has not stopped me covering well over 100 or 150 miles in less than a
week and having no less than 7 nature trips in that time. In fact I
had around four in the very same day and only ever managed two in a
single day before now. And if I ever did visit two places in the same
day they were always the same two and the two closest to me, bar one
very local spot.
Only I am still using
older and less suitable equipment when I go out.
Now last weekend I had
planned on acquiring more of my long shopping list but for two
reasons I ended up .. well basically 'bottling it'.
Yeah I seem to have two
issues since our little .. event has now almost come to an end, well
the first part at any rate. First off I was worried about driving and
despite the mileage and places I have visited I have taken things
very, very gently and plan to for at least 6 weeks. I normally always
do this anyway with a new car I have not driven before. But it has
been a very long time so I am spending a lot more time easing back
into things.
The other one is kinda
two fold .. with the first being struck with buyers remorse and the
other suddenly panicking about the amount of money I am spending.
Weird. Very weird.
But it is stupid .. I
do not know why I am feeling like this and I have no choice but to
get the things I intend to. It has all been in the planning for
months and I need to change things. I need to move up several gears
in several ways.
My life could not
continue they way that it has been but now I am in the process of
doing that .. I suddenly get struck with these silly and annoying
psychological issues?! I have realised where it stems from and in all
honesty .. a public service is to blame. Though their could be an
argument for two public services?
Yeah .. I am ..
panicking. Just a little.
The funny thing is it
is largely because I am around £10,000 short of doing everything I
absolutely want to and feeling safe about it.
It is because I want to
use what I now have to cut the restraints from the exact same public
service but I am panicking in case I ever have to approach them
again. Would not be for at least a year so I do not know why I am
panicking about that. Also .. well there are currently four avenues
whereby things for me could finally work out. I could finally become
self-supporting and there is nothing I would like more.
One of these avenues
has been in the pipeline for a couple years but I wanted to only put
it in place once I had worked my arse off for five years without
receiving any money for what I did at all. I just wanted to be able
to say that at a later date, likely in my own defence against big
organisations?
Ugh!
The next set of tools I
will acquire is only the second set in a set of three purchases. This
may include some other little odd ones in-between.
I have not even looked
at things like televisions or blu-ray players. In fact I only had two
things on my entire wish list that was purely for pleasure. Though I
say that but what this is I already have and I used to use it to ..
alleviate certain .. things.
I am not so sure that
this alleviation is any longer necessary? Still it would make for a
cool coupl of un-boxing videos that would attract attention from that
.. field.
Sadly and because of
all the delays .. the acquiring of personal transport has come a
little .. late. I have a real draw to visit sites in the UK and
overseas for nature. Both flora and fauna. I am also something of an
expert in several fields that scan the globe.
So filming and
photographing only locally has been somewhat .. frustrating and one
year a few years back I missed a couple of Bearded Tits, or Bearded
Reedlings. I was within a few feet of them but they suddenly decided
to stay out of site, despite the fact I was in a bird hide. Lol.
Just like the three
Wheatears I see of a couple of years these guys only ever stop of to
feed in my local haunts before continuing on to Suffolk, Norfolk or
even Yorkshire or further. It is worse than trying to photo someone
but only when they are at a bus stop. You have to get to the bus stop
just when they happen to be there. When this might only be twice a
year? Well as you can see it is difficult at best. Lol.
I have also been
working with tools that I could acquire the last few years. They are
far from adequate but they are better than nothing. For instance one
item was £500 new, might have been £550? The item I am looking to
replace it with is £3,000! The well known top of the line models of
these tools range from £4,500 to £6,000. Yeah so I am not even
going over the top here! But these things require other .. things. In
fact they do not even work at all without these other .. things. In
fact there are over a dozen to choose from and two that I want the
most are dearer than the tool itself so you can see? Bloody
expensive!
In fact it is funny as
I was into this many years ago and .. I really do not recall things
being this expensive? In fact I am sure that top of the line with one
manufacturer was around £1,500 to £2,000 around 1994? Today it is
£6,000?! These necessary attachments used to be around £1,000 for
the top of the line stuff. Maybe a little more? But my memory is bad
due to the short term loss I get from Fibromyalgia. The one
attachment to this tool I want more than anything else is £11,000!
The other one is £6,000 .. ish! I did discover that a famous shop in
New York in America seems to sell versions of a different
manufacturer and you can buy BOTH versions for several thousand less
than the most expensive one above?! Madness! It gets worse as for
some reason no one seems to stock them or even have them on special
order in the UK?
Hmm .. starting to
think I made a mistake and these attachments are for another brand
entirely? Or a different version of the exact same brand?
Ah well .. not like I
am jumping on an aircraft to go and get them any time soon? If only?!
There will be two
collections of tools that are kind of grouped together and in fact
one will have actually two versions of the same thing and I am
thinking about doing this too with the other one?
It is like I said to
someone the other day .. if your going to be more professional you
simply have no choice and this is especially true when you cannot
seem to buy one item that does everything you want it to. Oh .. this
is not just me, let me tell you. When I come to doing the un-boxing
videos to show what I purchased it will become clear. Maybe even
blatantly obvious and will cause nodding heads to anyone that sees
what items I have bought?
I also have to make
several other big changes and I have been .. investigating it but am
also somewhat nervous about this too?!
It is really, really
annoying
me.
I
am also really, really confused
by it.
One
brother also wants to buy similar .. kit to that I want and presently
he has shown interest in the two of us going .. up there. But he has
difficulties getting time off and I may be imminently going away for
awhile?
So
what I will do is that I will see if I can get a date out of him by
Thursday and if I cannot I will order the stuff for a next day
delivery. Annoyingly this will be two groups of orders. No one ever
stocks everything you want!
Oh
and all that visiting of sites I have only ever been to with someone
else or not been two before now? Yeah well during all that I managed
to slam the little finger of my left hand in the door!
It
hurt. Like hell. The fingernail has gone mostly black as has done the
opposing side of my finger, which is showing some bruising and it has
even swollen a little. Hoo-boy I had to refrain from pulling away in
the car for about 20 minutes or so because of the distraction of the
pain! I might have driven as much of a couple hundred miles but until
I feel completely confident .. yeah .. no driving with any
distractions whatsoever.
Typical
then that I cannot figure out how to get the Discovery's GPS bloody
working and keeps wanting to direct me bloody home! So using Google
Maps on my Android phone for now.
I
also forgot my prescription pills a few times and right now my legs
are aching really bad and have been all day, just so the painful
little finger does not feel left out!
I
had not originally factored in time re-familiarising myself with a
car and a very big one at that and nor had I factored in any
absolutely stupid psychological issues making me pause for thought. I
still gave a six week period though when I signed a particular form.
At
the time 6 weeks felt like it was too long. But right now it feels
like it is not long enough?! Go figure!
Also
if I go away for a week or two I will be in places I very rarely
frequent that are a considerable distance. This means all new scenery
as well as new species of animals I could not even get close to down
here. Even some of them would likely need an couple hours driving for
the closest ones to me.
The
third round of purchases will likely only take place after another
big change. This is inevitable and does not matter much because what
I want is not for sale just yet! In fact three items I want are not
for sale just yet. One of those is annoying as I will certainly need
this while I am away. Wherever it is I end up going to begin with and
even during the big change planned too! Damn it!
So
in the last few days I have been to ..
Fishers
Green twice
Cornmill
Meadow
Broxbourne
Woods
Panshanger
Park which was disappointing in a way
South
Essex Marshes
Bower
Marsh at Pitsea in Essex
Do
you know what I have realised that I like about this work?
No
effing double yellow lines, parking restrictions or parking
attendants to worry about!
Oh and I am also realising that there are a number of things I need to do and people I need to spak to or deal with and .. it feels like overload!
Now
if I can just get over these darned psychological things?!
