Fiddling while the rainforest burns...

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In Cafe Nero, i was SUPPOSED to be editing, but there is no one in NVTV... so i'm here, having an utterly indulgent mid morning before heading for Castlewellan to gawp at some starling murmuration. I am told it blows Rathlin right outta the water... with apologies to Damian.

However before i subjected myself to an Americano high, i did go some consumer therapying. Well i got the new camera which i had been threatening to get now for months and months and with some cash infusion from the Far East, i have not just a new camera, but also speaker for my laptop, headphones and a new camera case. A Lowenpro, if you please. I thought fuck it, if i can spend all this money on a camera, but not on a cameracase that will be looking after it for sometime to come. That is just a fals economy. And the Curry's woman was so lovely, she like charged me only £10 for the case when it was £19.99. That has to be a first.

Hmmm... my cashback from Panasonic seems to have disappeared. I did have this choice to get a really astonishing looking Nikon for £50 more, but really it had fewer features and i strongly suspect that one was paying for it being Nikon. But it was fucking sexy like.

So i am set up to take on the rest of the world. The feeling has been induced by the caffeine, i'm sure of it. How great is it to be listening to my own music on YouTube and not be subjected to the selections of Nero staff...

Listening to Piano Chocolate which is like a Massive Attack in the 21st century... i think so at least. But my music taste is limited and rather shallow, as i have recently discovered.

Anyway, i must now start organsing things. Getting the bags all set up. I can just tell that 2012 is going to be magic. I can just tell....

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