{"id":833,"date":"2010-06-14T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=833"},"modified":"2016-06-25T15:03:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T15:03:44","slug":"this-is-a-significant-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"Monday 14th June 2010 – This is a significant photo …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hardstanding<\/a>… and for two reasons. Firstly, it’s the first pic of Caliburn in his new home. At lunchtime I took him for a drive on the new hardstanding to flatten it down a bit. But the ground hasn’t dried up enough (and it’s still p155ing down now) so it’s no surprise that at one stage he bogged down. But I was expecting it and I had the chain winch ready.<\/p>\n

It’s also significant in the respect that it’s the first pic with the new Nikon D5000<\/a>\"\". I was in fact all ready to use the Pentax K100D<\/a>\"\" but the battery was flat and the ones on charge wouldn’t fire it up. So it seemed to he the right time to fire up the Nikon.
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But never mind being bogged down – this was one of those days where problems seemed to come along in droves. After Terry came round for some of my scaffolding poles, I went into Montlucon to pick up these tyres for the trailer – and I had a puncture. \u00a0Then of course there was the bogging-down, and then on the way to St Gervais d’Auvergne I got stuck behind a circus convoy – “Showman’s Goods” as they are described in British Road Traffic Law or “Les Forains” as they are described over here. So it was 30kph (if we were lucky) all the way there.<\/p>\n

And at St Gervais d’Auvegne I’ve ordered all my wood. The guy in the sawmill has undercharged me, and I pointed that out to him (I don’t believe in taking advantage of small businessmen – I wouldn’t like it if someone did that to me) but he insists that he’s right. But \u20ac126 for one thing and \u20ac99 for another and then a few other bits and pieces will never ever make \u20ac167 no matter how hard anyone tries to make it.<\/p>\n

\"st<\/a>Once everything was sorted out in St Gervais d’Auvergne the next stop was to Liz and Terry’s to fit the wheels and tyres on the trailer. <\/p>\n

The route as usual took me past the birdwatching centre at the back of town, which is my favourite spot for photographing the Puy de Dome. Now that I have the new Nikon D5000<\/a>\"\" I can take a pic from here and compare it with one of the photos taken with the Pentax K100D<\/a>\"\" and we can see if there’s a difference.
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Terry was out earning some folding stuff when I arrived and so I put the new wheels on the trailer and then helped Liz with some weeding.<\/p>\n

Now we are all ready for moving this tractor tomorrow. What with all of the effort we’ve put into it, I hope it all goes according to plan.<\/p>\n

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