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I took a few shots, some with a tripod and some hand held. Camera was a Fujifilm X-T20 (as always), and this was the XC50-230mm F4.5-6.7OIS lens.
I'm going to give my shot one last try next week otherwise I'll be entering what I have now.
One of the hardest decisions of my life was to leave my steady 9-5 office job in an attempt to escape the dullness of 9-5 office jobs. Thus, my entry is my personal leap of faith.
Luckily I now have a new idea that’s just a simple one lamp, table top set up. Now it’s just down to me to fluff it
I think we need to hear more about this. Sounds incredibly exciting??
Sure thing.
I left an office job with a manager who was a c*nt and a director even more so. It was a well-paid job by any 19-nearly-20-year-olds standards, but looking round at all the 35+ year olds on the same money as me being denied what I'd call "grown-up-starting-a-family-getting-a-mortgage" money it made me well aware that I couldn't see a long term future there.
The months go by, it's late August 2017, and I'm passively looking for other jobs, when an email from UCAS comes through to my inbox, telling me deferred place at Keele was still available. ALAS, I wasn't ready to leave just yet, and had no student finance sorted or anything so I reapplied for 2018 entry to Uni. I was offered places at Keele, Notts Trent, Cov and Salford immediately, and my head was still saying Keele. Birmingham Uni told me in a roundabout way that I was too thick and having a year or so out of education meant I was too old.
During that time though I met Ms HB, and not wanting to move away from my folks or from her, I took the option that meant not leaving home. Having never even been to Cov Uni, having no idea of the city of Coventry apart from the Primark and the cathedral, I took a "leap of faith" that it'd be a good Uni, and accepted their offer.
Roll down the days through the summer, and a week or so before I was due to hand my notice in I was offered a new role in the company. The pay rise was negligible, but I'd take on a bit more responsibility and start doing something I was more interested in (going from prototype parts admin to an engineering role). I had a decision to make.
It was at Foo Fighters gig at West Ham's new ground when that decision was made. I was to Learn to Walk Again. I wrote up my notice properly the week after, handed it in 5 weeks before I left (minimum notice period was 1 week), did fuck all in an effort to spite the pricks I was leaving, and left with a box of tools I was meant to give back and with scathing reviews of my manager and director. Turns out managers not managing anyone anymore and director was asked to move on for syphoning loads of money out of the company for no return. Eat sh!t knobheads.
As for me, it was the best decision I've made in my albeit nearly 22-year life. I love Uni, and walking through Cov Cathedral, especially in the morning just as the sun comes up when it's just me and the squirrels, is just icing on the cake.
Good on you Harry, and all the best to you
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Lady Kathleen Scott cast the bronze statue of a nude boy in late 1938 and originally intended to call it simply 'England' and then the war started. It was donated to Welwyn Garden City in late Spring 1940, which had a big de Havilland factory nearby, so the name was changed to Ad Astra - Latin for to the stars - to reflect the start of the Battle of Britain.
Lady Scott wrote "I have sold my big nude boy 'Ad Astra' for a site at Welwyn Garden City. I am absolutely delighted. I do so love to get a good home for my boys, and I am to design the pedestal. Its name was 'England' before the war. But when the air-war began, we had to change its name [for the Air Force]."
The statue became a very public symbol of the young men who put their lives on the line and the faith they put in their planes and skill and it represented a giant leap in faith on the part of the public that against all the odds the RAF would win the air battle and Britain would be saved.
The statue is looking to the heavens and as a piece of art it became a powerful symbol of youth fighting tyranny as all around it air raid shelters were built.
People still come from all over the world to look at it.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
@skullfunkerry – you're not wrong, 9-5 is sucking the life out of me good and proper