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Irrasshaimase!

Actually no idea if anyone from Japan reads this, but I’m bored and I like to think I’ve got global appeal!

Why Japan, well I’ve always wanted to go and looking at some books I’ve got to learn Japanese (not touched in a while 🙁 ) makes me think more about the world. I’ve actually learnt some important Japanese phrases over the years.

Biiru o kudasai – I’d like a beer, please.

Chiizu sando o kudasai – Cheese sandwich etc…….

So you’ll agree all important stuff. If I found myself in Japan tomorrow I wouldn’t starve, I might get pissed though. Need to practice Miruku tii o kudasai (tea with milk).

Combining Biiru and piza with ‘to’ makes Beer and pizza please. So I’ve not lost the little I learnt!

I was hopeless with the Japanese scripting (kanji) though.

Tonight I’ve gone mad. 5 A4 prints!!!!!

(The other print is on another wall and I CBA to take a picture of that one. Despite it being a stunning image).

Nothing special, just a few images I like. But noticed tonight how much better prints are than screen shots. You can’t tell from here, but the Hawk shot is great (imo). So I guess this might be a start of more printing. Well, the costs of anything above A4 can start to get prohibitive. I’ve still got plenty of paper though. Well plenty of Hi-Res and Matt Photo paper. The latter being good for some images.

Currently at a milestone with the old Canon s750 printer. Now it must be 5 years old now, but it still provides decent quality (Close up you can tell it’s an Inkjet print, but how often do you get a loupe on a print?).

However It’ll soon need a refill. Though the cartridges are reasonable prices (around £5.50 from 7Dayshop) a total of around £25 (inc postage) for the 3 colours and the black. £25 could be 75-90% the cost of a newer, better printer. Decisions, decisions. Plus I still need to shift my none Mac compatible HP LaserJet 1020. Yep, for some things Apple ‘doesn’t just work’, though this isn’t Apples or HP fault, they never got round to writing a driver for it. Seems it’s a common trait with this laser chassis (tis used by many other vendors).

18th March is a momentous day in history……

•1834: Six farm workers from Tolpuddle are sentenced to transportation to Australia for forming a trade union.

•1992: White South Africans vote overwhelmingly for an end to the racist apartheid system in a referendum.

•2005: Private Johnson Beharry is awarded the Victoria Cross after saving more than 30 of his comrades in Iraq.

(Source BBC history).

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