Wizardgold

Great to get away and have an adventure in France in the Languedoc region of France. Stayed in a place called St. Paul de Fenovillet in a decent little campsite. The weather was bloody cold for the first couple of days and the wind was biting, like it could rip the skin off you. Despite the weather we had a good time visiting the castles of the area.

We rented a caravan and it was big enough that the dog could come to. Dama had a great time too all the time lots of walks in the country side and time with her new owners. As you may know she is a dog rescued from the chop and a previous live of really bad treatment. So nervous for the first months with us and still a bit jumpy but what a huge change from when she got here. I am pleased to see her being more like a normal dog now. The previous owner should be strung up by his wotsits.

The Languedoc region noted for its wine had vineyards whichever way you looked and the colours of autumn added colour to the whole adventure. The vinyards all seemed to have places to for tasting and buying of the wine. I can’t stand wine so no good for me but would be great for the wine buffs though.

Took photos of the castles visited and I have a bundle of shots of an old shed in a vinyard next to a railway track. The shots are one set which will be a panoramic view and the other group will be a panoramic HDR. The sky was dramatic with dark clouds and white clouds set off with deep evening blue heading towards a sunset. I had to work quickly to capture the available light.

I will add the photos to my Flickr account during the next couple of days. I have to go into Girona on Monday to get the iPhone, so there will be some time devoted to playing with that. While I was away the vodofone transferred the number over to Movistar but I couldn’t get into the shop to pick up the iPhone and to activate the number with Movistar. Always the way these things happen, would have been nice to get the phone today but the shops were all closed due to a national holiday.

Look out for the photos to appear soon.

I started work at 8am and it was going well enough until the guy working with me got himself sacked for stupidity. Easy done – making silly mistakes and getting caught out. So when I was supposed to have 2 hours for lunch I only got 1 hour and that was not enough.

I was able to see online that there was information on the Movistar site about the 3G iPhone but no chance to do anything about it. I would have liked to get inside a shop and see if there were any iPhones in the shop. Managed to get home 7pm after 10 hours of working during the day and I am fit for nothing. I considered looking in a shop on the way home but tiredness had set in and due to the traffic at that time plust it being Friday when all of Girona and Barcelona descend upon the town, I have no wish to find the nearest iPhone shop. I think it may have to wait until Monday.

Mind you that depends on whether I can get away with us being one man down at the camp site in the reception

Other news today dissapointed me was the discontinuation of my favourite Betfair betting software BinarySoft BDI. Excellent software and great for trading. I was thinking about getting a subscription to it at the start of the Premiership. No chance of that now.