Month: October 2005

Old Ing > Dismal Hill  Rose, Ken.

Rose agreed that this is a really interesting and fun trip, apart from being accompanied by a complete idiot who dropped her camera-case into the canal, got mud on the lens and took ages to take photos whilst she was hanging off a tyrolean.  The fact that he was also hanging off a tyrolean with nowhere to put anything, trying not to drop the camera into the canal as well, using an unfamiliar device without his specs and wearing wet gloves, did not count as extenuating circumstances.  Rose’s opinion was confirmed on discovering that instead of photos, he’d taken a video featuring disembodied headlight, no people, and a voice-over with exasperated voices:  “Turn the right-hand dial to the second notch.”   “I’ve done that, but it won’t fire”.  “Put it on the SECOND notch”. “It IS on the SECOND BLOODY NOTCH, and it WON’T FIRE…”