I'm booked in ..

It's as if it was meant to be ..

I was invited to a breakfast networking meeting the other day, down at a chateau near our gîte. As I turned into the drive my car began to make the most horrendous screeching noise, and a cloud of grey smoke rose from under the bonnet. I crawled into the car-park and pulled up, with a rather red face, next to a guy and lady who had driven in before me. Folks, they were car mechanics! A couple who moved to France a year ago and were, like me, at the meeting for the first time. Even better, their workshop is less than 2 miles from our house. I'm booked in for Monday ..

Into the meeting and we all start to press the flesh. "A photographer? .." asked one nice chap who turned out to be an estate agent "You don't do property photography do you? .." I'm booked in for the first week of December ..

Coffee and bacon butties were served. The lady handing out the goodies just happened to be the owner of the chateau. "We're having our Christmas Fayre this Saturday .." she said "You couldn't take some pictures, could you? .." I'm booked in for 11 am ..

It's as if it was meant to be ..

Ps: This isn't the garage I'll be going to, but a lovely quirky old building in the next village down from ours that seems to have been turned into some kind of impromptu museum. Très cute ..

    

On yer bike ..

Great to be back at my annual bike-show 'gig' on Saturday, working the NEC 'Motorcycle Live' show for a local insurance company. My legs are still aching!..

The format is that I'm given a list of particular parts of bikes - the cans, the double swingarm and so on .. and yes, I do know what that is .. now! - and have to head into the heaving mass of bikers to shoot them. My phone's walking app told me I'd covered my 10, 000 step target by noon, and my PR bud was delighted when I dropped an amazing 1, 047 shots onto his laptop just four and half hours after first pressing the shutter! Man, it's hard work, but such fun!..

More fun tonight when I take a stand at one of our local Christmas Shopping nights. I'll be at the Culcheth Arms showing off my great range of my Florescence place-mats and coasters and offering 10% off photo-shoots for the New Year. At least I won't have to walk anywhere...