Finally! I can test my camera out proper like!!

Tonight Roller Derby action is hitting birmingham again as the Blitz Dames are going to take on the Glasgow Roller Girls’ Irn Bruisers…

I’ve been practicing taking action shots with my camera in anticipation of getting some good ‘rolling’ shots! My past efforts with my phone camera have been abysmal to say the least…I’ve mostly just got an empty shot with someone’s ass disappearing on the right-hand edge. Not good!! Luckily I’ve got a speedy little dog to practice my shutterbugging on…it’s hard to keep him in focus to be honest, but these are two of my better efforts…





…he loves that tugger…he tries to shake it to death as he charges round the garden, but really only succeeds in slapping himself round the face. Poor stupid little puppy!!

Good luck to both the teams tonight…I’ve got an inkling the GRG will be charged from their bout with the LRG. It’s certainly going to be an interesting game as the Dames fight to keep the GRG from their first away victory! The Central City girls and boys are going to be out in force tonight :o)

Raiders of the lost camera

I’m still off my skates…my knees are a lot better now but I still wince every time I’ve got to put any pressure on them. Sunday was pure torture, watching everyone glide around the sports hall like evil ballerinas. I’m not even sure I can make it to practice next week (I anticipate that I’ll be recovering from a very debauched hen party) so I’m already starting to get the ‘lack of skate shakes’. I’ve got aerobics later (I’m not chickening out this week) so maybe thatll be the hit I need!

Sunday’s plan was to take my camera with me to get some practice in, but after a long search on Saturday I ended up convinced that my cameras had gotten lost/stolen/left behind when we moved house. I was gutted because they were gifts from my dad and I ended up with nothing to do but make a nuisance of myself while everyone else tried to skate…not that that’s much different from when I’m actually skating! So…yesterday, me and Mr Gory togged up in our mountaineering gear and went for an excavatory trip through our spare room. We’ve only been here for three months, and we didn’t really downsize in the move, but we did somehow end up with a spare room literally FULL of stuff that we couldn’t bear not to bring with us.

A few hours, seven bin bags, five shredded boxes, a trip to the tip and a few arguments later, Matt appeared with both my SLRs! So now I’m the happy (non-stressed) owner of beautiful machinery AND a lovely tidy, organised, grown-up-esque spare bedroom! I even pulled my finger out and bought a new bookcase and a flat-pack office from the big laminated website of dreams as soon as we’d given up and settled on the sofa…give us a few weeks and we might even have this place looking like a adult couple lives in it!! Or maybe not…that’d be no fun!

Anyway…and here comes the point to all this…I have my cameras back! So I can take pictures!

I took a few this morning. Fletch isn’t feeling in the mood to keep still for too long so this is the best I can do…



…and this was already on the memory card from last summer…the Sally Dawg!