The TP 52 - 2024 The sign up and chat thread Week 44 Night

Getting the train to Blackpool tomorrow. There will be people :banana: :naughty: :banana:
 
There were people! Quirky interesting people :banana: :naughty: :banana:
 
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Did a tech get chosen for this block yet? It still says TBA on the spreadsheet and I couldn't spot it in this thread, or did I miss it somewhere?
 
The Tech is Panning for Sep/Oct - it's in the Themes thread.
As we are now looking ahead to things around the end of the year. the rather random choice I picked for the next week is Exit
 
Apologies for lack of comments on submissions this week - I've been playing golf in 30 degrees in Portugal (sorry :ROFLMAO:)
 
Remember that the tech themes are intended to be a gentle push into trying something new. Give them a go, this isn't a competition, just a personal challenge.

In a sprit of Candid-ness, I have to confess that I just discovered that I took out duplicate policies with Eversure a couple of months apart last year, only realised thanks to the renewal notice for the second one arriving. The nice lady there not only cancelled the auto-renewal that was going to take place, but arranged a full premium refund for the duplicate policy, which was very decent and unexpected. But what a daft old sod I am for doing that in the first place!
 
Oooooh my fave! :banana::naughty::banana:
 
lindsay said:
Remember that the tech themes are intended to be a gentle push into trying something new. Give them a go, this isn't a competition, just a personal challenge.

In a sprit of Candid-ness, I have to confess that I just discovered that I took out duplicate policies with Eversure a couple of months apart last year, only realised thanks to the renewal notice for the second one arriving. The nice lady there not only cancelled the auto-renewal that was going to take place, but arranged a full premium refund for the duplicate policy, which was very decent and unexpected. But what a daft old sod I am for doing that in the first place!
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You're far from being alone with duplicate policies - I'm sure Martin Lewis would provide some startling stats for that ... as well as for policies taken out for non-existent products. Bravo Eversure.
 
Had a rough couple of months health wise, so decided to opt for the wall of shame for this year. Don’t fancy trying to catch up when health issue hopefully resolved in next month or so.
Plan to give it another go next year and cptmn (my daughter Megan) will have another go- well she said she would
Enjoy the rest of this years 52
Cheers
 
@nog sorry to hear about your bad health. By all means only participate when you feel up to it - it's a personal challenge, not a competition, after all. Thanks for your involvement so far and best wishes for your recovery
 
nog said:
Had a rough couple of months health wise, so decided to opt for the wall of shame for this year. Don’t fancy trying to catch up when health issue hopefully resolved in next month or so.
Plan to give it another go next year and cptmn (my daughter Megan) will have another go- well she said she would
Enjoy the rest of this years 52
Cheers
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All best wishes for your speedy recovery Keith
 
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Get well soon mate @nog
 
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It's nice that we have here on TP a lot of virtual friends and friendships...
 
It's people again! Wooohooooo... off for a walk down the prom :)
 
Had a nightmare journey back from Paxos last friday. It has taken 24hours to get home, starting with a cancelled ferry. A trip to mainland greace and then onto corfu to get to the airport on a larger car ferry missing our flight by 5hours. Had been booked onto another flight going to a different uk airport, which was delayed by 4hours. Got back to the uk, then had a Taxi journey to the orginal airport to pick up our car and a drive home. To top it all we had collected Covid on the way. I'm on day 5 of covid, still got a positive test this morning. Feel okish but have missed last weeks theme. Hopefully will be clear in a couple more days.
 
What a sorry tale Pete, but I hope you get over it soon.
 
seaodyssey said:
Had a nightmare journey back from Paxos last friday. It has taken 24hours to get home, starting with a cancelled ferry. A trip to mainland greace and then onto corfu to get to the airport on a larger car ferry missing our flight by 5hours. Had been booked onto another flight going to a different uk airport, which was delayed by 4hours. Got back to the uk, then had a Taxi journey to the orginal airport to pick up our car and a drive home. To top it all we had collected Covid on the way. I'm on day 5 of covid, still got a positive test this morning. Feel okish but have missed last weeks theme. Hopefully will be clear in a couple more days.
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Nominative determinism in action !
(get well soon)
 
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seaodyssey said:
Had a nightmare journey back from Paxos last friday. It has taken 24hours to get home, starting with a cancelled ferry. A trip to mainland greace and then onto corfu to get to the airport on a larger car ferry missing our flight by 5hours. Had been booked onto another flight going to a different uk airport, which was delayed by 4hours. Got back to the uk, then had a Taxi journey to the orginal airport to pick up our car and a drive home. To top it all we had collected Covid on the way. I'm on day 5 of covid, still got a positive test this morning. Feel okish but have missed last weeks theme. Hopefully will be clear in a couple more days.
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Good grief. Must have been awful especially if not 100%. Speedy recovery
 
seaodyssey said:
Had a nightmare journey back from Paxos last friday. It has taken 24hours to get home, starting with a cancelled ferry. A trip to mainland greace and then onto corfu to get to the airport on a larger car ferry missing our flight by 5hours. Had been booked onto another flight going to a different uk airport, which was delayed by 4hours. Got back to the uk, then had a Taxi journey to the orginal airport to pick up our car and a drive home. To top it all we had collected Covid on the way. I'm on day 5 of covid, still got a positive test this morning. Feel okish but have missed last weeks theme. Hopefully will be clear in a couple more days.
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What a nightmare. :eek:
Get well soon, Pete
 
It's often easier in the poorer weather to stay Local; for photography I suppose? At least that's my habit.
 
Sounds a bit like Week 1 : Close to home

Will look what I did and do something different :)
 
Good spot Dave, I didn't notice that. Oh well, an easy week for some then I guess. I'll have to make the next one more challenging!
 
The weather here has been a bit Rough lately...a slightly more creative theme?
 
It's that time again, and as the clocks have changed and days are shorter, it seems an idea to get people out at Night

And just for good measure, the Technique for November/December will be Flash Photography
 
eoSimon said:
Tips for flash photography without a flash or should I head over to the GAS thread ? :)
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Borrow one?

Think outside the box?

www.merriam-webster.com

Definition of FLASH

rush, dash —used of flowing water; to break forth in or like a sudden flame or flare; to appear suddenly… See the full definition
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eoSimon said:
Tips for flash photography without a flash or should I head over to the GAS thread ? :)
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I did ponder on this, but decided that most people probably have access to some sort of flash gun, but there are other types of "flash" lighting - you could even interpret it as "flashlight", ie torch, photography, or playing with light... it's open to shoehorns as always
 
Thanks both, I’d thought of a torch but wasn’t sure if shoehorning was ok for techniques as it is for subjects. I’ll get creative..,
 
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