After the upgrade ….. in The odd entries from life …….

The last few weeks I have been eyeing a free upgrade that has been popping up in the right top corner, I’ve lost count of how many time I’ve flicked off the screen, of course it is back in a few minutes. I have opened it twice and thought ‘nah’ or ‘an other time’ Well today most have been that ‘other day’

I had other things to do, and it seemed a good time, and it takes over an hour to download; so I could do those other thing and cheek the progress as I passed. The download took over the hour, then something else took another half hour, then I had to agree to the small print.

After all that I had a new screen in softer pastel colours, then I had to find the code so I could get on the web, then I couldn’t find my links, Amazon ProseBox and BBC sort of thing! I went carefully trying different things on the screen, this did things but not the things I wanted! Then my Daughter came by, looking over my shoulder she said try ‘Bookmarks’ ‘what’ ‘Bookmarks’ ‘Ho’ then I was told to try ‘favourites’ So I applied the pointer ‘Ho yes that’s good’

Now things that were quite not working well are working as they should, so there I was with a uncertain smile across my face! And it works, and all dun without tears or those words usual muttered under one’s breath. Then tonight my Sister has sent a copy of our maternal Granddad, so I’ve worked on it on Photoshop, but it’s a very low resolution and parallaxes very soon! The image is one I took in my early years of photography, I have the 35mm negative stored away waiting for that time when I have a darkroom!

Granddad passed away in 1984, I have no images of Nan as she passed in 1965, I did have a camera then, it was a Kodak 127 Browne camera made of Bakelite, back then a roll of 127 film and having it processed and printed cost a fortune.

I had been given the camera for Christmas to take on a school trip in the coming year, a camping tour through Europe, looking at the cameras the other boys had I noticed I had the cheapest on the tour; it was that moment that set my future path!

It was only when I was working that I could afford a Japanese 35mm camera, £19! I never told Mum the cost of my full frame digital SLR camera, it was that Yashica J camera that I took this portrait of Granddad.

Last updated December 19, 2014