Double Photographic Whammy

The first whammy is that Susanne was persuaded bought me a new camera for Christmas (which was nice of her). Whenever one has a new camera, one takes a lot of pictures. Susanne doesn't see what was wrong with the old camera, and so the existence of the new camera makes her feel tired - every time I take a picture of her, she is reminded of this, and so when her grandchildren look at the old pictures, they'll say "Grandma, why do you always look anguished in 2009"? (After they've finished laughing at our primitive technology).

Almost a second whammy (but I've decided not, as then I can't call it a double whammy) is the speed the camera takes photos. If you ask it nicely, it can take 6.5 photos per second. Remember when you took a roll of film on holiday (or maybe a couple), and it held 36 pictures - it can use them up in a little over 5 seconds.

The second whammy is that we are on holiday, in Hawaii. And being in Hawaii, as you'd imagine, gives you lot of opportunities to take pictures.

Combining these two means that you're really lucky that (a) I haven't got a slide projector and (b) you're invited to ourhouse to look at them.

We arrived in the late afternoon, the day before yesterday, and I've take 1,608 photos. You'd be obliged to look at them all, but I'm 'borrowing' the wireless internet connection of someone called 'Francine' (or maybe they call their wireless internet connection that, as some sort of pet name). And Francine doesn't pay enough to make it a particularly fast connection, and has positioned her wireless router in a spot where I have a very weak signal. So you're going to have to wait a while. if you can hold out without the anticipation being too much.

Oh, and if you really, really like pictures of twins running about on cold lava (what's that called, after it's hardened? Stone?), well, you're in for a treat.