… and I nearly didn’t go.
And I wish that I hadn’t either. Standing around for four and a half hours in the cold and wet waiting for things to happen. Being poked and pushed and prodded, having my camera knocked out of my hands, having my foot stamped upon full force by a demented dancer …
I don’t do crowds at the best of times, and this wasn’t the best at all.
Having gone to bed early last night, i was away with the fairies until sometime while it was still dark, but I simply turned over and went back to sleep.
09:30 when I finally awoke, and 10:45 when I finally crawled out of bed.
That’s what I call a Sunday.
There was time to go a-rambling too. Off with a friend of mine who sold me a scam about a kidnap ransom fee and obtained £130,000 from me. And even though I knew what was happening, I couldn’t do anything about it.
And so a breakfast so late that I didn’t even bother with lunch. In fact, there wasn’t time to do all that much at all.
Instead, I put on the heater in the bathroom and while that was warming up I went out to check the times of the procession.
Not 14:30 as I had thought, but 13:30. So I dashed back here for a quick shower and then dashed back out.
Fighting my way through the throngs, I picked a good spot and waited for the procession.
Never mind 13:30 – it was more like 14:45 when the first one went past. And then the others (there were 47 in all) appeared. One after the other, with huge gaps in between. Probably 10 minutes on some occasions.
In the end, I was so cold that I headed for home regardless, and that was where I finally found the final 5. 17:40 and they still hadn’t set out yet.
Beaten, battered and bruised, I ended up back home where I crashed out on the chair, totally fed up and exhausted.
Before tea, I finally made my apple pie. And delicious it might be – but it’s far too wet. Too much liquid in it, and I knew that the moment that I added it.
But it was nice with some of that coconut soya dessert stuff, after my excellent vegan pizza.
So even though it’s not even 22:00, I’m off to bed. I’m still not feeling very good.
But before I do, I’ll just mention that I’ve solved the problem of the exposure on the big Nikon camera. I have one of the function buttons set up to work the exposure correction override. And what seems to have happened is that the button has been pushed too far in and wedged under the lip of the hole, so it’s permanently switched on.
So now I’ve noticed, and freed it off, it all works fine again.
That’s one less thing to worry about.
And if you want to see all of the photos for today, you need to go to THIS LINK
