Spray, waves, water, a car and a number.... part 1

 Well a bit of a selection today, from bloody expensive cars to breaking waves and spray.  haven't really done much to them apart from a mild sharpen.

Hmmm well track me down.....

 It seems I am now the proud owner of a digital tracking chip that I'm told can find whatever it's attached to anywhere.
 The big question is what the bloody hell to I attach it too?.
 Never loose my keys?  I haven't lost a key in years.
 Find your car in the car park... yeah that will be handy trying to find the biggest bloody car in my local shopping car park which must have all of about 40 spaces. Some days I must spend oh.... all of 30 seconds looking for it.
 I could attach it to my phone, but I need the phone to track the chip so I can't see that being a big success.
 I think I'll bung it in my camera bag for now and see if it works.

A few Nikon pics

 I was very kindly given an old Nikon D2x, in it's day a cracking camera, now compared to more modern cameras it struggles a bit.
 Here are a few pics, not many as I don't have a charger for it yet, I have ordered one but it could take a week or so.

 Anyway first few.

Flight safety! Huh!

 An airliner with 23 people on boad lost an engine cowling on take off from Cape town, it turns out some work on the engine was done by an unqualified assistant who failed to replace it properly, the after work inspection also failed to spot it wasn't latched, and the pre flight check also missed it.
 The leading edge of the wing also sustained some damage from the cowling when it seperated.
 Makes you think doesn't it.

Return to the lighthouse

 I decided to make a return visit to Whiteford point lighthouse today, the sunset and tide times were right.
 After spending a bit of time there in the freezing wind taking pics and video it became apparent that the sun still wasn't going to set in the right place for the lighthouse but too far to my left behind the headland (I'd takes a compass bearning of the suns setting angle) It looks like another month or six weeks will be just about right.

 Anyway, here's the shots from today..

Hard sun (review) contains spoilers

 Well last night a new series started on the BBC called hard sun.
 This is a tricky one to review, party because it's only the first episode of a series and has to build the story, secondly because it's just so daft.
 The premise is earth s doomed, it seems the sun is going to have a bad day in five years time, the government /security services are trying to keep it quiet to avoid panic.  So far so good with the story. But two police officers investigating a sort of suicide find out about it and decide that people should know about things.
 Good points it's a pre apocalyptic police/science fiction drama and a ton of money has been spent on it.
 Bad points, well half of it seems to have been filmed with a pale yellow filter on the camera, no idea why it adds nothing to the story and just makes it look like the white balance is out.
 The sound seems bad (a long standing issue for the BBC) a lot of the speech is mumbled or whispered and it's not helped by the droning whine of the "music" which is too loud and bloody awful over about the half the program.
 Lastly parts of the story are being explained to the viewers, I can only assume the Beeb think all their viewers are morons. Eg.  "Is Whitehall behind this?" "you mean MI5?"  We guessed Whitehall meant the powers that be were behind it, I didn't think it was the Whitehall fish and chip shop in Dover.
 Then there was "it's a flash drive, you know a zip drive"  Really two senior detectives having to explain to each other what a flash drive is?  No wonder they cant fucking find Madeleine  McCann if thats the quality of Met detectives.
 The last straw for me was theres the countdown clock to the end of earth, (see pics) it's counting down in tenth of a second.  4 years, 49 weeks, 2 days, 6 hours, 53 minutes, 17 seconds, 1 tenth of a second .  Really, they can tell to the tenth of a second when the earth will die nearly five years away, but they cant get tomorrows weather right?  They are having a laugh, talk about too silly for words.

Wayne rating 3/10 might pick up or not.

Mr's Browns Boys Christmas/New year specials.

I had hopes of this being funny, the stage shows were very funny, sadly the TV show is loosing it's way.
 It's coming across as tired and boring, and just not as funny as it once was.  You can only do the silly Christmas tree gag so often, and this was once too often.
 The cast is just too big for a short program, people just popping in to show their face and leaving, not really anything to do with the  plot, what there is of it.
 Frankly there was one funny moment in the New year special and that was it, and to be fair I'd had a drink before watching it which should have helped.
 Even the "ad-libs" look scripted now, and thats a bad sign.

Waynes rating 3/10  watch if your a die hard fan of Mr's Brown, otherwise give it a miss.