14 January
It’s snowing this morning, and the snowploughs are out.
You may wonder if anyone ever replies to our photographer’s nonsense.
Apart from telling him that he’s an insensitive, middle-aged Mail-
reader, of course. Well, yes, occasionally they do. A distinguished
doctor responded to yesterday’s comment about auto-focus with: "I
probably shouldn’t ask but … what did you thing the ‘MF’ setting was
for???”
Which was almost as surprising as one sweet lady’s comment on seeing
the snowpark shaper with the recumbent boarder: “And there was I,
thinking that some lucky person had had the opportunity of whacking a
snow boarder with a shovel, and wishing it could have been me…..”
14 January
It’s snowing this morning, and the snowploughs are out.
You may wonder if anyone ever replies to our photographer’s nonsense.
Apart from telling him that he’s an insensitive, middle-aged Mail-
reader, of course. Well, yes, occasionally they do. A distinguished
doctor responded to yesterday’s comment about auto-focus with: "I
probably shouldn’t ask but … what did you thing the ‘MF’ setting was
for???”
Which was almost as surprising as one sweet lady’s comment on seeing
the snowpark shaper with the recumbent boarder: “And there was I,
thinking that some lucky person had had the opportunity of whacking a
snow boarder with a shovel, and wishing it could have been me…..”