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WOW!..........This has made my day, and all my efforts with lens and High ISO experimentation worthwhile. THANK YOU! FUJI

I'll be 75 in early January.......still think like a twenty year old though, having a great life......I wouldn't change a thing. FUJI.......The Sage

Dear Kate, my thoughts are with you.... FUJI

So sorry to learn that Denis..........................Make sure it isn't one of those insurance scams............check Google for them. FUJI

Soooo, Funny. FUJI

My father........smoked......died aged just 57 yrs, heart disease. Mother smoked.....died aged 68 .....heart disease. Brothers smoked.....No. 1 died lung cancer, No. 2 died, lung cancer &heart disease......3 has throat cancer and heart disease ...still smokes. sister......smoked....died aged 54 ......Heart disease. First cousin smoked.......died from throat cancer aged 59. I have witnessed far too many if my immediate family and friends suffer greatly as a direct result of smoking.....so detest it. Never smoked in my life............and never will. Smoking should be banned. I'm the number one Grinch about tobacco.

ANNIE and LEE.........You really are a couple of Grinches......( so surprised at you Annie) ................. Being my age......( violins here please) .......is that I remember the wartime Christmases, they were EXACTLY like Lee said he would love........ We had no Dad ( for 6 years) so no real Father Christmas, to buy or stuff a stocking for us......we had a holly branch Christmas Tree with toffee and chocolate papers for its decorations......home made paper chains stuck together with flour paste........very few gifts, those we did get were poorly made, home made or made by German POWS.......definitely no turkey.....perhaps a scrawny cockerel from Gran's chicken hut.......thin watery mince pies.......no Christmas Pud unless it was a home- made affair consisting mainly of soaked bread......NO Central heating......Chilblains.....outside loo......unheated bathroom and bedrooms.....cold Lino floors.......if you look at weather records for the 1940s we had some of the coldest winters ever.....1947 was an all time record, with very deep snow and below zero temperatures for three months from January to March...it ended with severe gales and flooding.......as a nine year old my 6 year old brother and I had to treck two miles to the local Gas Works for one hundredweight of coke ( no coal available) ....we did this weekly as did all our young mates.......Hardly any sweets or chocolate....NO bananas or oranges.....Mam, slaving away for four kids doing her best to make Christmas as good as she could for us..... .I can't go on.......I will depress myself....because it is all so bloody TRUE. The MORAL of this?..........Be thankful because you never know what is around the corner ...... Times could still get tougher for you all. Have a GREAT Christmas and ENJOY it.....even you Lee and Annie ;-) Ancient.....FUJI

RELATIONS

Also.........Our small town has at least 8 charity shops, overflowing with superb Non-Fiction Books........so many folk are using E-Books on iPads and Tablets now.....one of my mates is a professional Artist......since he acquired an iPad, he buys all his books newspapwes and specialist magazines via the iTunes Store: This means that even more proper books will be available second hand: FUJI

Remind me....NEVER.....to go to RUSSIA........I am guessing that Vodka has a lot to do with it? FUJI

You've had the ......HICCOUGHS, FUJI

all done.......Thank You Lee. FUJI

I have just discovered this very apt quote that can equally apply to we photographers. In 1893, the painter Camille Pissarro said, ‘Happy are those who see beauty in modest spots where others see nothing. Everything is beautiful, the whole secret lies in knowing how to interpret it.’ By the way........How do I go about placing the quote so that it permanently appears underneath all my posts please?........ I note that quite a few members have quotes there. FUJI

Please folks......do as old Fuji tells you....... Sit back with a glass of something and listen to this..... ENJOY! FUJI

BOW

ANNE..........you have no taste ;-) FUJI

Got myself a Cryin' Talkin' Livin' Doll Gotta' do my best to please her Livin' Doll ' 'twas on the Juke Box in the harbour side cafe at Wells- Next-The -Sea.......where my good lady and I camped under canvas long- long ago in the mists of time......We used to go into that cafe every lunchtime for tomato and cheese sandwiches and took enough sixpence s to feed the Jukebox. FUJI

ELASTIC

FERRY

BEAT

GIVE me

BROOK

FRICTION

half past TWO!

PARTY :cheers: