Public library dumping books

We found bags full of books at the door of our lovely local library.

Down with the elder!

Gale force winds and heavy rain swept the island tonight.




The gusts brought down one of my neighbours' trees. The loss is not mourned for since it was a huge and old elder (Sambucus nigra). Although the species is technically a shrub, this one was so big that it blocked direct sun on our south-facing garden for a few hours every day.

Also, its black berries fell on our ground and stained everything in the garden. Finally, a fungi attack kept the elder leaking sage in the spring...

New camera!

When Ángel Febrero explained me how his compact digital camera can take indoor picture without flash, I decided that it was time that my Kodak EasyShare CX7310 enjoyed a deserved and honorable retirement.

I decided that I need/like a camera capable of:

• take portraits under poor lighting condions, without flash and with a low level of noise
• have at least 7 Megapixels
• have a lot of preset scene modes
• capable of recording video clips of at least 640 x 380 pixels, 15 fps and audio

I found that Olympus µ [mju:] 1000 exceeded these requirements.













So I decided to splash out is a terribly capable camera, that should satisfy all my needs in the few coming years...