Showing posts with label camera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label camera. Show all posts

Thursday, May 16, 2013

More camera grief

I didn't really intend these ramblings to be a and-then-we-did-this-and-then-we-did-that exposition. At some stage I hope to be a little more reflective. But. Stuff keeps happening. Today, the new camera karked it. Just refused to work. So back we trotted to a fairly sceptical Ubud Music Centre, who finally acknowledged that yes, the thing would not switch on, no matter how many times we tried a different battery. And wasn't it strange that the battery in the dud camera worked perfectly well in another one.

Goodbye Olympus, hello Panasonic again with fingers crossed.

Earlier we had enjoyed a long conversation with the Aussie mentioned earlier. I'll maintain his privacy, so no names, but he continues to surprise. Lovely man. He had just finished a session of Qigong, and did such a good sales job of it that we are investigating classes. New people are such horizon enhancers.

Dinner tonight, after a Golden Hands massage each for dodgy ageing shoulders and knees, was at Fair Warung Bale, the face of a charitable foundation that helps Ubud's young people, who do all the cooking and service. Absolutely delicious and such a rock bottom price that you couldn't just pay what they charged. Another place to revisit.

Finally, a moonlight swim to end a pretty satisfactory day. Tomorrow we will ... no, sorry, I wasn't going to do that.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

The wash up...

... after the cremation. Not only were we soaked through yesterday*, everything we were carrying was. My super-duper security handbag might be unslashable and unpickpocketable, but it certainly isn't waterproof. Everything in it was soaked - wallet**, phone, makeup bag and of course, the camera. Now officially dead. Fortunately, although damp, the phone has survived but I can't work out how to get images off it and onto the blog. Bluetooth remains a mystery to me so I am always surprised when it works, and the tablet doesn't recognise the USB connection. So a trip into Ubud today saw the purchase of a cheap(ish) point-and-shoot digital Olympus, with none of the refinements of the drowned Panasonic, but we just can't spend 25 weeks here without a camera. Not sure how the pics will turn out, but mediocre is probably better than none at all. The one above (not mediocre, I hasten to add) was borrowed from here and I appreciate it.

Meanwhile we'll check out what fine print the insurance policy undoubtedly has to prevent us from claiming, but we'll give it a go anyway.

The thunder is growling outside and it has been stiflingly humid this morning following yesterday's unprecedented event.***

Time for a swim.

More soon.

* Remind me to tell you a funny, but unprintable, story when next we speak.
** The money (millions, being Indonesia) is drying out under the fan as I type
*** One commentator said that he had never known it to rain on a Royal cremation in 40 years, let alone a downpour like we had.