Another week, another wedding! It’s that time of year. This time a wedding with a difference, the cake was actually a big pile of doughnuts! That’s rigtht DOUGHNUTS!!! I know. Have you ever heard of anything better than that? I seriously doubt it, because I haven’t.

In the style of Homer Simpson, I was compelled to eat a few of these, Eight in fact. EIGHT. Eight delicious doughnuts. mmmmmmmmmmmm drooolgurgle…

In other news, I took a day off work which in the past has resulted in spending lots of money. This time was no different as I purchased a camera rig – which you attach to cars and take photos. It’s much much less boring than it sounds – more on this subject later, count on it!

Without looking for a car, thinking about a car or asking anyone about a car, I find that I have suddenly purchased a new car. Richard over at Performance Car Dreams took a car in part exchange for his Focus RS, and as soon as I saw it I had to have it.

So the Ignis has gone. It came in for a lot of stick because of the way it looked – I actually quite liked it, and I’m not one to be too bothered by what people think. Ultimately though, when you get a fair bit of abuse from your nearest and dearest for the car you drive it can’t help but get to you a bit.

As a result I’ve got mixed feelings about the Ignis going – it was quite simply great fun to drive – the rorty little 1.5 litre engine was plenty quick enough for me, and the handling was always entertaining (in a good way).

Where the Ignis lacked a bit was in the luxury department. With little or no sound deadening, it wasn’t the most refined of steeds, but it was no worse than my 205GTI is!

So what has replaced the Ignis? I wont share any full pictures until I’ve had a chance to do a proper shoot, but I do have this one here….

fin.

I wrote a week or so ago about my slightly inebriated photo shoot of a Ford Focus RS. This (like the Audi A3 and VX220 before it) was carried out for Richard at Performance Car Dreams a sports car sales and sourcing company. As well as sourcing and selling very nice cars, Richard is also a nice guy. So no reason not to use his services. My only issue is that if I buy the Focus RS he’s currently selling, I’ll end up single and homeless. I would have a nice car though….

So I shambled around a field with my Vivitar 285HVs and my new radio triggers to see if I could get any interesting photos. I ended up bright yellow from the pollen of all the lovely yellow buttercups, and had to run squealing from several wasps but apart from that it was relatively uneventful.

This here photomographic image was taken using the two Vivitar 285s to the left and right of the frame, triggered by radio.

As Richard needed some shots to help the car look as good as possible for the sales advert, I took a few interior ones and detail photos as well, which are alright I s’pose.

Starting to get a few more cars lined up for shoots, which is nice. Nothing more to say at this stage!

I’ve always had problems when I take any time off work – I end up going out and beating the living hell out of my bank balance buying all manner of things I wouldn’t be buying if I’d just gone to work.

Today on a routine visit to a superstore I find myself buying a set of knives. Not just any knives though – Global knives, which are all sharp and pointy and made by Japanese people. The price was too good to refuse; at about 60% of the cost of buying them online it would have been rude not to.

Knives are good because you can use them for all sorts of things, including but not limited to;

1.) Cutting.
2.) Slicing.
3.) Stabbing.

I probably wont do any of 3.) if I’m honest, it’s not really my scene. I do like a bit of cheese though so 2.) will be fairly common.

I should hope so too, with what they cost if they aren’t sharp then I’ll be pretty annoyed.

I’d like to say I’m some sort of gifted chef and need to spend sick amounts of cash on knives but this would be a big fat lie. I’ll use these for cutting bits of cheese and avocados in half and that’s about it. But all the time I’ll feel like I’m Gordon Ramsey or Heston Blumenthal.

All these knives apparently have a specific function but in reality I have no idea what those functions are so I’ll chop away with whatever random one I lay my hands on.

Anyway I’ll lay off the pictures of knives now for fear of looking like some sort of total psycho.