I had no idea I had so many readers into graphics manipulation.
I used
Photoshop because I knew it pretty well although probably only at a superficial
level. Transparency, blurring, sizing, file size crushing and perspective correction occasionally.
I have Irfanview installed although for me it is always reluctant to install
Plug-Ins but I had entirely forgotten about RAW files
which I have used extensively in the past though not so much now. So special
thanks for that reminder and for all the other suggestions.
I object to 50% price increases. I thought only Thames Water did that - exactly
50% increase for me give or take a couple of pennies. I’m afraid I am buggering
them around so it will cost them plenty. They refuse to install a meter because
of their defective infrastructure and are asking me to pay more than twice my
combined electricity and gas bill. How is water use estimated on the number of
bedrooms? (Answer - They don’t know.)
I am tempted to leave the garden tap running continuously to make sure I am
getting my money’s worth.
Ahh, Bexley Council. I am supposed to write about them aren’t I? Yesterday I
used the Foots Cray recycling dump for only the second time in my 38 years in
the borough. I had collected together all the electronic gadgetry that is
totally out of date. I suspect there was about ten grand’s worth of old circuit
boards etc. A helpful man offered to take it from me and walk it to the
appropriate point. For some reason he seemed to be more interested in a handful
of old cables. Who uses SCSI, Parallel, Serial, VGA and SATA 1 cables any more?
I will probably need one next week.