This photo was taken with the G7 – hurrah. Thank you DM. The G7 died in 2007, during my last week at work, when I was on my way to a business meeting in Poole and I had to change trains in Southampton, where I took advantage of terra firma to go for a “comfort break”. I hung my handbag on the back of the loo door, sat on the loo and the next thing I knew, the bag was on the floor.

Of course the thing that happened to be in the bottom of my bag wasn’t the 400 page paperback kitchen sink drama was it? It was the G7 that I’d spent several hundreds of pounds buying only weeks earlier. The amazing thing is that technically it still worked BUT the display was broken so the only thing you could do was set it to auto, point it at something and press the shutter and take whatever found its way onto the memory card.

So, it sat on the shelf for six years, the last pic taken on anger on it was 28th November 2007. We did check out whether or not it could be repaired but at the time a new screen was a horribly big sum of money so it was shelved, literally. I thought about selling it as “spares or repair” on ebay but never got round to it.

Then, when we both decided to use our cameras again to restart PAD, David decided it’d be good to have something more portable than the 5Ds so he looked again at the possibility of repairing it. He found that the cost of new screens had come down massively in the interim period so one was duly purchased. It winged its way across the world from Hong Kong and was installed over the weekend by my very handy hubby, who wasn’t even my hubby when it got broken.

I’ve been at Uni today not learning anything much – a lecture on biofuels where I think I knew more about the subject than the lecturer. On my way back to the car I noticed this skyline and decided that the Plymouth eye, along with the very famous Smeaton Tower would make a perfectly acceptable shorthand for my day.


Once, a long time ago, I photographed the London eye for my PAD.