What bemused you today?

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It's just a few days to the longest day and they had snow in Wales yesterday! 

Shhhussh, don't tell any Americans, they'll turn up in July looking for Igloos, like they do here. 

[picsfor]

Alan,

Bournemouth is not the best place, drive a bit further to Weymouth, and the Wrinklies have their own high street and set of shops, leaving the other high street for the less retired 

[SimonW]

It's just a few days to the longest day and they had snow in Wales yesterday! 

In mid-March I discarded my winter woolies in the heatwave. By the start of April I had put them back on - and I'm STILL wearing them. It has been cold, wet and downright miserable ever since - and the forcast is more of the same. No snow though.......

[Oldboy]

It's just a few days to the longest day and they had snow in Wales yesterday! 

Shhhussh, don't tell any Americans, they'll turn up in July looking for Igloos, like they do here. 

I bet you give them the cold shoulder!

[greypoint]

After being out in the rain for much of yesterday I was walking round the park with my dog thinking how nice it would be to get home, have a hot bath and sit down by the fire with a nice hot dinner....then I remembered it was 'flaming June' not November! 

[ABERS]

Had the heating on for a couple of hours yesterday. It really goes against the grain doing so in June

[Markulous]

2. I bought a really expensive pair of trousers from Craghoppers.  They are designed by (don't laugh) Bear Grylls. 

Sympathise with the Craghoppers QC (I've found they're not as good as they were).................. until I saw Bear Grylls! 

You want to get some Yaks for your trip - makes carrying stuff way easier (and what we had for our Everest Basecamp trek)   

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Had the heating on for a couple of hours yesterday. It really goes against the grain doing so in June

According to my wife, that's what sweaters are for. Forgetting of course that they're all packed away for summer. 

[SimonW]

Had the heating on for a couple of hours yesterday. It really goes against the grain doing so in June

Ours hasn't been off at all yet this year. Except maybe the thermostat cut out a couple of times in mid-March.

[anglefire]

Turned ours off ages ago - so Simon, what temperature is your house!

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WBMT?. I posted here before about it, over a year ago, sent my KM 5D to a company in UTAH U.S.A. for an IR conversion. Paid up front. Didn't hear back for weeks. Started sending emails that were never responded to (he'd been quite chatty in the run up to sending the camera off). So this morning, out of the blue, I get notice from the U.S. Postal Service that the camera is on it's way back. I'm only bemused because I have no idea of the work's been done properly or even if it works. If you Google the company, Spencer's Camera & Photo, you can find several horror stories about it's customer service. By a very strange coincidence, it's my birthday so I'd love for this to be an unexpected gift (one I paid for mind). But until I have the camera in my hand, functioning, this story is bemusing only.

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Damn, I just remembered, the Canadian Postal service is on strike. The package will sit at the border for who knows how long.

[ABERS]

Little bit of a money spinner!

http://www.masterphotographyawards.co.uk/payment.php

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Ha, just watched some U.S. news. Their postal service isn't even going to process packages mailed to Canada until our postal strike is resolved. 

[Oldboy]

I thought I saw Long John Silver today but on closer inspection, it was a girl with a Parrot on her shoulder. 



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