4/10/2017 0 Comments Better dig out my jacket...
I can't believe that another month has flown by.
Autumn has kicked in and nights are darker and colder. Something my Dad used to say comes to mind the "Autumn tints are lovely". Here comes the catchup...
On 9 September, my best friend and I ventured to somewhere we had never been before. Painshill Park is to my mind, really beautiful.
In the mid 1700s, Charles Hamilton developed and landscaped the site after being inspired by a Grand Tour. I marvel that none of it's splendour was there before his intervention. I think it is a special place - <more about our Painshill visit here>
On Sunday 10 September, we popped up to Wisley Gardens for a couple of hours to take in the Flower Show.
<more about Wisley Flower Show here>
The following weekend we went up to Wisley again, and had a nice few hours <more details here>
A week later, we went back to Painshill again, and walked the historic circuit, but weirdly I forgot to pick up my camera, so the memories were not recorded.
Talking of cameras, my trusty Canon Powershot SX60HS had a short adventure and had a bit of a service this last couple of weeks.
A couple of months ago, after the "Scorched Earth" Glastonbury Festival and the very warm weekend in the Isle of Wight, I felt a knocking as the zoom lens extended or retracted. I asked people "in the know" but the prognosis was not good. At some point the dirt or muck in the lens would stop it working, so it would need replacing as it is a sealed unit. Any how, long story short I sent the camera to the Canon Service Centre and it has just come back and seems absolutely fine once more.
The window in my driver's door stopped working when we visited Painshill for the last time, so I had to try and weatherproof it before the glass people came to replace the glass. They came and told me that the glass was intact but the winding mechanism had broken, so the car would need a trip to the garage.
That was finally sorted out yesterday but not before I had realised just what that single piece of door glass does - without it, the car was very noisy and drafty, and the noise whenever I shut the car door when the temporary cover was in place was plain annoying.
As I said earlier, Autumn is definitely kicking in, and I took a few photos around the Canon office grounds.
Lastly, my beloved Arsenal have started their visits to Middle Earth in the Europa League. I have a loathing of this bloated competition, but the squad players are doing a fair job thus far.
Their form is the Premier League has improved and they are currently in 5th place, but are two wins behind the leaders.
Congratulations to Arsene Wenger who has now won against 45 different teams in the Premier League - a record for a manager in the top-flight.
Enough for now... until next time
Let's be careful out there. Pip, pip!
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