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There is nothing there.....just a stone cross on the village green, and the impersonal Manor Hotel......it is the village where Triumph motorbikes were built though........I worked in their derelict factory painting exhibition stands whist the Falklands War was raging. Kenilworth is around 12 miles away, Stratford 25 ish....Coventry, Warwick and Leamington Spa 15 ish......Birmingham 35 ish.... What needs to be decided is it going to be a lunch and a chat day with a tad of photography thrown in....or......a mainly photography day, with a short lunch or picnic? Or something else? FUJI

A few things to think of if you head my way........thankfully we are at the hub off all main motorways so relatively easy for travelling.....the Caste isn't open until Easter? ........it isn't a bad weather venue, it needs to be fine and sunny to get best photography....I just wish I had a magic carpet for you all to save time and fuel costs...........Caste entry isn't cheap, but to get cracking photographs you don't have to go inside, there is the wonderful mile and a bit Millennium Walk all around it......Wellie's are advised ........Should the Clarendon Arms be chosen for our meet and chat, I would need to let them know approximate numbers......There is the very commercial Steak House next door, it has more room .........another good venue with lots of room is the modern Almanack gastro pub in town close to a large car park ......great food, good atmosphere, it is within three minutes of the Abbey Fields and ten from the Castle. Thoughts......From experience, meetings like this can be over in a flash, the pub lunch and travel times could restrict photography time......we must decide.....a photography day.....or a chat over lunch.......decisions, decisions? I suggest you take a look on Google Earth, and Google the venues so you are all sure. I must admit, that a Fine-Day Riverside Picnic in Stratford- Upon-Avon appeals to me.....if the weather could be guaranteed......there is Park and Ride if town car parks get full. Wherever is chosen is going to cost motoring and parking plus entry fees and meal.......Co-ordinating diaries is going to be fun FUJI

I am repeating the gist of my SHOUT here (please read it first)..... Coventry would be good in any weather......Stratford upon Avon will be good too....if you want a Castle...I live almost next door to Kenilworth Castle, two fine pubs, a Pool, a Brook and a Park in Abbey Fields.......our house is too tiny to host a coffee meeting but ...The Clarendon Arms appeals. But please don't restrict yourselves for me. FUJI

I'm sure you will be able to take pics Nanny....... I will try to find you an informative link: Corn Plaster?......The burn is litterally most of my fingertip, the exact spot where I press not only Aerosols but Camera shutters and door bells....it hurts like mad....I won't ever do that again: FUJI

The Abbey Barn Museum in the Abbey Fields, it is open only on Sundays and Bank Holidays and is manned by volunteers from the town's Archaeology and History Society. I used to be a committee member and volunteered for quite a few summers.....the Barn contains quite a few of my metal detecting finds plus other items......it is a great way to pend an hour or so on a damp summer Sunday. FUJI P.S. My fingertip has a large painful blister on it now......it is not only my iPad digit it is my shutter depressor too :-(

On Sunday, I did a repair on a wooden Victorian Pushchair for a local museum, after the glue had set I decided to spray the worm eaten frame. After perhaps half a minute I noticed that the finger pressing the aerosol was feeling cold, I just thought it was the nature of the spray, or just the continual pressure making my fingertip numb, so carried on. Just afterwards and since my fingertip has been tingly and numb, and hurts when pressed ( its my iPad finger:-( .....apparently prolonged spraying of an aerosol can give you freeze burns commonly known as Frostbite.....quite serious in fact.........We live and learn, even at my age. Apparently, it is known by some teenagers who burn each other or themselves at parties, using sprays. Should you feel your finger going numb when using an aerosol, stop and put a glove on or use a small protective pad. FUJI

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WOW! A huge THANK YOU........getting POTW has given a very positive boost of what has been a very negative week for me......one old fogey here extremely happy. Two things......I wouldn't have captured this shot ..... a:......If I hadn't been on one of my all most daily hospital visits to see a very ill brother.: b: ......If my camera hadn't been switched on and ready to go......as soon as I saw the scene, I knew that it would only last second, the blue brolly, the light ( it was rapidly darkening) the reflections and the raindrops streaking the bus window came together all at once......My little PANASONIC LX5 is a Star. Thanks again. FUJI

I have been very interested in this thread......Why? Because a year or two ago I won a Low Pro shoulder bag on here for the most amusing photograph....... This has got me thinking, because busting both legs made walking impossible for three months, very difficult for the next year, and dodgy at times even now......so that poor bag hasn't had the use it might have had. I usually go out and about with a single lens attached to the SONY and adjust my photography to suit its particular limitations.......Never have I tried changing lenses....in the field....so to speak. Also, I would feel a bit conspicuous in town or in a city with a specialist camera bag Your thoughts please! FUJI

Yes he is a fantastic reviewer, I have been watching his videos for a long time now. But BP......METHINKS you are winding us all up after watching both parts of the Camera Bags test. ;-) FUJI

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