recently faved photo on my flickr bit.
i took this with my pentax espio mini, a camera i've had for nearly twenty years. it's never failed me, indeed the only problem i had with it was when my sister borrowed it an then dropped it in the sea. the flash failed but everything else worked and so i sent it to pentax who repaired it (for free!) .
if there's a moral to this story it's that don't lend your cameras to you kid sister... ;)

so the Ilkley christmas lights were turned on last saturday by Matthew Lewis, some of you will know him as the actor who played Neville Longbottom in the HP movies.
He's a very nice fellow and he came to do this in place of Jimmy Saville who died about a month before the event. Matthew's fans were out in force and it got a bit hectic, so much so that the police offered to give him a lift in a van to his car after the event. happily the police station is right next door to the church where the event took place.
here's the vid i made of it.

i met Miranda at the 1in12 club a couple os fridays ago. we had a little chat. :)