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    .....because of the rubbish weather we've had (here in the Midlands at least) I've done very little camera work so far this year.
    My hope is that I can soon get something suitable for our July competition.....fingers crossed! :fingers crossed:
     
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      Just bide your time David and something will turn up. :) You don't have to enter your pictures all at the same time, so if you come up with a good shot you can enter that straight away and follow with the others later in the month.
       
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        You can always take photos of the rain. :blue thumb: :heehee:
         
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          "Lazy Hazy Days" ?? :scratch:
           
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            I don't know about 'Lazy Hazy Days', it doesn't feel like summer here. Even the sky has got that glassy look of autumn about it. :doh:
             
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              Just to upset you a bit more :heehee: - here in Shineyland we have had a reasonable summer so far. Virtually no rain (have to have the sprinkler running a few hours a day :doh:), a fair amount of sunshine and a lot of hot, muggy, humid cloudy times (very uncomfortable for working in the garden :sad:).

              It hasn't been good from a photographic point of view. The sun is too bright and when it's not sunny it's too overcast to get the correct colours from the plants.
               
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                Rub it in why don't you! :gaah:There's always the 'magic hour', I suppose.
                 
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                  Potential entry??? :heehee:
                   
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                    Brilliant :dbgrtmb: :yay:
                     
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                      Least you'm got a working camera :sad:

                      I've missed shots of a live seal and a dead dolphin this week :doh: When the dolphin washed up I suddenly realised I've got no idea how to check for a dolphin's pulse :doh:
                       
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                        Just to upset you a little bit more , you don't even have to move that far away, just go a bit further south and you'll get to deepest, darkest Worcestershire :) Only rained twice in the last seven or eight weeks or so :)

                        PS.... Just a little tip, stay away from the Severn Valley. I can see the whole of it from the Cheltenham area right up to the Shropshire hills from my windows and I can watch the rain and storms move up the country.
                         
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                          You could try mouth to mouth :blue thumb: - and maybe get arrested. :heehee:
                           
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                            Yay!!! After the despondency, it seems summer will be arriving next weekend. :yay:
                             
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                              Just rubbing it in a bit more :whistle: :heehee:

                              It's here in Shineyland. :dbgrtmb: It topped 82F today and is just dropping down this evening and was 80F at 7.15 p.m.

                              Now...

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                                I've posted an entry in the July Photographic Competition (blackbird fledglings) which I had posted a couple of days earlier on Wildlife Corner.
                                I'm sure this doesn't contravene any rules, but ideally I think it would have been preferable for competition entries not to have been seen before.....sorry about that.
                                 
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