Your Today in Pictures...

[Dominique De Bast]

Seen, yesterday, in Paris.

[Graham Ritchie]

Steven, Yvonne and myself visited the local adventure park last week, Yvonne had been given a present do do this Zipline. I must admit I had never been to this place before, but had heard all about it from grandson Connor who bikes there all the time with friends. It was a really nice afternoon, the staff were great, very friendly and helpful. The person doing the Zipline came from Scotland, "its a small world" and was out here like many on a visit, wanted to know where I came from in Glasgow?. While we were waiting at the bottom for Yvonne we talked to others that had just done it, tourists from Canada and England, they all enjoyed the Zipline and in particular there holiday to New Zealand. Even down at the Ferrrymead park there are still a number of overseas visitors at the moment I have talked to from countries like Romania , Germany , Canada, Switzerland even England, none from Scotland as yet. On the tourist side of things New Zealand seems to be a popular place more than usual to visit if the numbers are anything to go by.

What I do enjoy the most is when I talk to folk and hear about there own country and how things are for them, anyway back to that Zipline and Yvonne video weeeeeee . I now understand why junior likes to spend his time there, although those bike tracks are are for the more adventures types.... certainly not me

[Graham Ritchie]

Yesterday I finished building a cover for the projectors on display, quite a bit of work to get it done, built to stand earthquakes floods and anything else sent our way picked up some display boards for a total of $30 dollars from the Eco shop which will be used to display photos of local cinemas. The Westar is running like a swiss watch at present, although I would still like to swap it with my 35mm that is already to go using 6000ft reels, finding the time that's the challenge. Yesterday was interesting when I was talking to a young lady holding onto I think around two year old age wise. This youngster had a tube up her nose, so was not sure of her health, but the nice thing was her mother said afterwards, give the man a high five, she reached out and I gave her a gentle high five back, nice people hope the we girl is OK health wise. My next visitor was a X projectionist, we had a very interesting chat , his wife said, I have heard all this before so that was day when I took those photos.

[Graham Ritchie]

The most expensive thing these days was the framing timber 90/45mm thankfully the person in the timber section of Bunnings is also the chairman of the tramway association who offered me cash discount on there own account. The photography crowd I am with are paying for all the material so I have to be careful of spending other peoples money, plus almost every week I would give them the receipts so I can get a refund.. I feel now, its just about finished as I would want it. Its been a interesting project, only fell of there crappy aluminum ladder once and that was enough, I mention this so beware of cheap ladders, not a good idea at me being 73 years old that old ladder went one way I went the other while I was up it, apart from a few grazes I was lucky. I found a couple of earlier photos as below.