Nikon Pictures - David's Collar Bone

This is just a stormy sky about lunchtime and not important. But David rang and the poor lad has had a fall from his bike. A contributory factor apparently was one those blasted road-humps on the way to School yesterday. He has broken his collar bone in two places and went to Casualty last night and to the Fracture Clinic this morning where they have put his arm in a sling. But the broken bits are just 'sloshing about' he says. It will take about 6 weeks to heal and he can't drive or anything. We will go over and offer comfort as soon as poss. but he assures me that he is OK.

After the stormy sky we had thunder. It sounded like it did the other night - as if someone was trying to get in through the front door. Must be the prevailing wind. And then we had the rain.

And then the rain stopped and we had this lovely afternoon, even if everything was soaking. Y says that it rained very heavily at Burton Joyce too, at around the same time. Dropping her at the Tram and then picking her up this evening worked well again and we both enjoyed our Chicken salad. We both love the wild rocket which still seems to be 'in' - it is so peppery and refreshing.

These pictures by the way are the first with my new camera. It is a super piece of equipment but I haven't even reached first base yet. A lovely lens and the colours, particularly the reds (which weren't good on the Casio) and in fact the whole tonal range. I've already made one discovery - it produces pictures whose pixel count is far too high for the Blog (3500x2500 roughly) and to get them to load I have had to reduce them. It should produce great prints, but I so rarely print these days. A trawl through the handbook to discover how to reduce it, is called for.

Ah well. Hope D has a reasonable night. Must be difficult to get comfortable.....