Never happy
A wartime pillbox at the side of the A1065 road just south of East Raynham, Norfolk, seen in June or July 2016. It looks as though haymaking had recently occurred. I find, in trying to get a precise fix on the location, that the Google street view car came along here in the August. By then the thistle growing on the roof of the pillbox was brown and dead, and a large heap of manure had been dumped at the left edge of this view.
Every time I flog a camera I wish I had it back. This was my Fuji GA645Zi, now owned by a bank manager in Spain. Looking back through the results, they seem a lot better than I'd thought at the time. I got over five hundred nicker for it and sold my Mamiya C220 at the same time, with some other odds and ends. This enabled me to re-equip with two Mamiya M645s and three lenses and to get my nice Yashica 635 repaired. Did I act wisely? Well, no good thinking of that now; I've made my bed and I'll have to lie on it. If I'd hung on to the cameras I sold, I'd still be hankering for an M645. Hang on a mo; I wonder what the 645s would fetch if I put them on eBay, and what I could buy with the proceeds. Hmmm ...I quite fancy a...
Never happy
A wartime pillbox at the side of the A1065 road just south of East Raynham, Norfolk, seen in June or July 2016. It looks as though haymaking had recently occurred. I find, in trying to get a precise fix on the location, that the Google street view car came along here in the August. By then the thistle growing on the roof of the pillbox was brown and dead, and a large heap of manure had been dumped at the left edge of this view.
Every time I flog a camera I wish I had it back. This was my Fuji GA645Zi, now owned by a bank manager in Spain. Looking back through the results, they seem a lot better than I'd thought at the time. I got over five hundred nicker for it and sold my Mamiya C220 at the same time, with some other odds and ends. This enabled me to re-equip with two Mamiya M645s and three lenses and to get my nice Yashica 635 repaired. Did I act wisely? Well, no good thinking of that now; I've made my bed and I'll have to lie on it. If I'd hung on to the cameras I sold, I'd still be hankering for an M645. Hang on a mo; I wonder what the 645s would fetch if I put them on eBay, and what I could buy with the proceeds. Hmmm ...I quite fancy a...