Oh dear, overcast and light rain all day and in the evening. Housework after breakfast, then shopping to replenish stocks of plant milks in particular. I cooked a spicy fava bean dish with brown rice for lunch, then took my brolly for a walk in the rain, all the way to Tesco Extra to buy a new handheld food mixer as one of the beaters on our ancient one broke when Clare was using it a few days ago. It might be possible to get a spare pair but how long it would take to source them is anybody's guess.
I had an exchange of emails with my cousin Dianne about a couple of old family photos, and that prompted me to scan more batches of old negatives - ones of family occasions from our time in Monaco, an assortment of negatives from when Kath was a new born in Penyrheol and a few others from St Paul's days. These were negatives of a different size to the standard 35mm ones that I used prior to 2001. I think they were shot by someone using a 110 film, 16mm size negatives. But who?
Given the years between the two locations there may have been two different people with 110 film cameras, or perhaps one visitor in both places - possibly our dear departed friend David Barker, who also took pictures of our wedding, which I also looked at this evening. In addition there are dozens of much larger negatives shot with Clare's Zeiss Icon bellows camera, which got stolen sadly, when we lived in St Agnes Vicarage. Scanning those negatives one of these days will be a different challenge, as they are 6 x 4.5cm in size, and need a flatbed scanner and the right software to make a good digital image. An enjoyable way to spend the evening on a dark wek night.
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