Rainy Day Blues
Harry Potter was great. SERIOUSLY GOOD ENDING! I read it within 24 hours, and it was nice to immerse myself in witchy stuff for a bit. Being a reasonably able witch, it’s nice to mix with one’s own kind a little. Weird needs weird, every so often, just to keep sane.
So what else is happening? Well, for one thing, England is drowning.
Literally.
For those that don’t watch the news, the UK has had the worst rain for a generation. Nearly everywhere is flooded and the UK infrastructure has ground to a halt.
We’re O.K. here in our little Eastern pocket of the country. This area is already a giant swamp, and heavily irrigated with dams and dykes, which means that areas are much less prone to flooding. But the fact that the rest of the country is drowning is affecting everything, including our day-job. Kinda difficult to pimp your software when there’s no-one left to sell it to. But mustn’t grumble. At least my house is intact, even if it IS full of rowdy kids who are shut in on their summer hols, cooped up and bored senseless. So who came up with the bright idea of inviting other people’s bored kids around, in the hopes it might cheer them up ? (Sometimes I’m not the brightest Smartie in the packet). Guess the house won’t be intact for very long.
No models either. It’s very difficult for models to get here at the best of times, let alone in this weather, so no photography (I’m still broken, so unable to model), which makes the man very blue. We have a shoot planned next week and I’m keeping everything crossed that she can get here somehow, and that this won’t get cancelled as well.
In addition, the media’s coverage of the floods is really annoying me. Instead of relying on professional photographers to get decent footage of the floods, every single newspaper and t.v. station is inviting readers to “send in your photos” from digital cameras, mobile phones and so forth. Of course, once you upload them to the t.v. station, you lose all your copyright to the pictures, but who cares? The t.v. station certainly doesn’t . It has free piccies and it can do what it likes with them. No need to pay for decent photographs when you can get grotty ones for free from the public eh? How do the media expect professional photographers to eat? This is the death of photo-journalism in the UK, and it really sucks.
Eventually this obsession with “free” will drive everyone out of business. Why pay for something when you can have it for free? Sod the quality and the fact that the photographs are really bad. Doesn’t matter, because hey! It cost nothing! Thus being excellent value for money!
Sorry for the moan chaps, but it’s difficult to stay positive when it’s raining constantly…and I mean torrential rain, ALL of the time, for months on end. No sunlight, no vitamin D, no sparkle. Just water, water everywhere. Must dig out my thermal socks (sexy, Lin, that’s real sexy!) and hunker down under a blanket until this British summer is over…
Good job I don't live on the western coast of North America eh? I'm definitely a sun worshipper :-) Better move to Florida instead!
Lilmummy, looking yummy
So what else is happening? Well, for one thing, England is drowning.
Literally.
For those that don’t watch the news, the UK has had the worst rain for a generation. Nearly everywhere is flooded and the UK infrastructure has ground to a halt.
We’re O.K. here in our little Eastern pocket of the country. This area is already a giant swamp, and heavily irrigated with dams and dykes, which means that areas are much less prone to flooding. But the fact that the rest of the country is drowning is affecting everything, including our day-job. Kinda difficult to pimp your software when there’s no-one left to sell it to. But mustn’t grumble. At least my house is intact, even if it IS full of rowdy kids who are shut in on their summer hols, cooped up and bored senseless. So who came up with the bright idea of inviting other people’s bored kids around, in the hopes it might cheer them up ? (Sometimes I’m not the brightest Smartie in the packet). Guess the house won’t be intact for very long.
No models either. It’s very difficult for models to get here at the best of times, let alone in this weather, so no photography (I’m still broken, so unable to model), which makes the man very blue. We have a shoot planned next week and I’m keeping everything crossed that she can get here somehow, and that this won’t get cancelled as well.
In addition, the media’s coverage of the floods is really annoying me. Instead of relying on professional photographers to get decent footage of the floods, every single newspaper and t.v. station is inviting readers to “send in your photos” from digital cameras, mobile phones and so forth. Of course, once you upload them to the t.v. station, you lose all your copyright to the pictures, but who cares? The t.v. station certainly doesn’t . It has free piccies and it can do what it likes with them. No need to pay for decent photographs when you can get grotty ones for free from the public eh? How do the media expect professional photographers to eat? This is the death of photo-journalism in the UK, and it really sucks.
Eventually this obsession with “free” will drive everyone out of business. Why pay for something when you can have it for free? Sod the quality and the fact that the photographs are really bad. Doesn’t matter, because hey! It cost nothing! Thus being excellent value for money!
Sorry for the moan chaps, but it’s difficult to stay positive when it’s raining constantly…and I mean torrential rain, ALL of the time, for months on end. No sunlight, no vitamin D, no sparkle. Just water, water everywhere. Must dig out my thermal socks (sexy, Lin, that’s real sexy!) and hunker down under a blanket until this British summer is over…
Good job I don't live on the western coast of North America eh? I'm definitely a sun worshipper :-) Better move to Florida instead!
Lilmummy, looking yummy
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