DrJoolz Snapshotz on Life

Playing in the garden with my macro lens.

I like this:

Looks like Anya and I are BOTH into e-bay at the moment. She got this.

I have just received this:

As Anya says, it is so cool on e-bay, when you buy something, they tell you that you are a WINNER.

I am bidding on this and “>this as well as other stuff.

So addictive.

Yesterday evening I was, as we used to say at my school, ‘Cream Crackered’. However, I was persuaded (really cajoled) into going to the Sharrow Lantern Festival that had by then been postponed three times due to rain. This is last year’s festival.

As usual TT was right (well not really, ‘as usual’ but I am trying to be kind) and we had a really nice evening. We had to wait around a bit for the parade to begin, don’t know why, maybe to wait till it got dark. But is was sweet to see people arriving with their precious lanterns, and a bit of fun to follow the parade around the streets (led by some mystery people wearing weird clothes and playing drums).

This kind of event makes me feel nostalgic, but I have no idea why as it is of a type that certainly never happened when I was a kid. For me, these community affairs are new fangled; as are lights, lanterns and costumes. Perhaps it reminds me of being in school plays, but those tended to be boring, because as a ‘good reader’ I always seemed to be the flaming narrator.

It was nice watching the people arrive anyway, just seeing everyone excited about it all…. some people might say it was marvellous that we were not all stuck at home watching the box. Or doing stuff on the Internet.
But of course I would not have known about it without the Internet as it was through Sheffield Flickr that I heard of it at all … and of course we met people from Sheffield Flickr group there. Then went back home and uploaded photos for all the other people to see.

My dear son Miles came with us which was nice. And I see Guy went too. More photos here.

And just to keep you informed, TT has left for Sydney today and hopes to meet Anya. Wish I was going too.