25th September 2007, 06:55 pm
Well we had another outing planned for Saturday just gone, a 12mile ride supposedly taking around 2-4 hours so we expected it take about 3, Bzzt, wrong!
Giles from work found the route on the site he bought his bike from, sounded like a good route with some decent technical downhills involved which we were still craving from two weeks before. So off we headed just before 9am to lovely yorkshireeeeeeee. Setting off for the ride at about 11am after a nice heary breakfast consisting of an egg roll - with salad! We had 4 of us on this ride compared to last time when we ended up with only 2, we planned to keep it at 4 for the duration this time 
Had a good start to the ride where we had a few semi-decent downhills, or sloped hills with a nice technical section leading to some steps to a main road. This is where it all went wrong, instead of turning right through a gate which we couldn’t see, we headed straight over and slightly right through a gate that we could see. The further we went down this trail, the more we realised we’d royally messed up. After we’d done just over the 12 miles we were supposed to do and still couldn’t find the way to where we needed to be we decided to ask and give in 
We got told that we’d crossed 3 valeys before stopping, so we had to head back much to Stu’s disappointment. A relatively leisurely cycle most of the way back and once again we decided to change our course and head another way - this led to some quite good technical downhills which led on to a nice pub for a quick drink before cycling the last 3 miles, up hill, back to the cars.
This is just one of the many views we had whilst up there.
19th September 2007, 10:11 pm
Getting a bit sick of this now on ebay. Having just bought a couple of things from Ebay in the past couple of days, I’ve seen how different people go about leaving feedback for you.
One guy who I collected the new cannon lense from on Monday night was one of the nicest people I’ve met on/from ebay, before I even got home he’d already posted neg feedback from the sale as his part of the deal had been completed - i.e he had my money.
The same can’t be said of another guy who I’ve just bought from, used bin to purchase the item and paid instantly via paypal (don’t even get me started on the stories I’ve heard about using paypal either). So, same thing as above except I want this to be posted to me. So I get an email from the seller saying thanks for the purchase and that my item was being shipped. (S)He requested that I post feedback once I receive the item and in good condition and he will then do the same.
Now forgive me if I’m thinking that I should already have positive feedback posted for this sale as I’ve completed my side and paid but no, instead I have to post pos feedback for him so that he does the same to me, basically threatning that if I leave anything other than that then he would probably do the same. Well they can get stuffed, I’ll not bother leaving feedback at all or just neutral feedback stating why.
Ebay idiots!
18th September 2007, 10:30 pm
Well I picked up what I would consider a bargin from Ebay last night, got a EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM to play around with. This is going to replace my kit 18-55mm lense that I got with the camera. Gonna have a mess around with some macro work using the macro extension tube set I have so check out the dSLR gallery soon….
5th September 2007, 10:58 pm
http://gallery.photoland.co.uk/
Set this up to fill a requirement people might have for a free gallery to host images on. Signup is by activation of the site admin for now so if you need somewhere to manage your photo’s then give this a go.
http://gallery.photoland.co.uk/main.php
5th September 2007, 06:11 pm
Well I picked up a second hand Canon EOS 350d last week as I want to start getting into photography more and more. I used to be quite good with my old point and click but the newer one I had bought just didn’t seem to cut the mustard.
Been messing around with it for a week near enough now just learning how to shoot in manual mode to get the best out of my pics and this is the type of thing I’ve got so far:
Hopefully gonna head out to a midget race http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midget_car_racing on sunday for one of the chaps that works for us and take some snaps…..
