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  1. Darren G <[email hidden]> wrote

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    since 5 year old daughter got into geocaching I struggle to get her to
    walk to the car without the gps. Oh, and I got the shop to throw in
    free a cheap digital camera [1] when I bought my 300D. She now has that
    with similar effect.

    [1] digital for a child may seem excessive, but it saves a fortune on
    printing costs. Interestingly she seems to have a very natural eye for
    timing and composition, especially candid portraits and landscapes,
    which makes me wonder if she has a gift for it or if at that age we all
    have it and it is bred out of us by 'the day job'.


    Keep a close eye on her - I saw this in another newsgroup:

    *************

    Touching Story - must read through to end

    ...about the bond formed between a little girl and
    some construction workers. This makes you want to
    believe in the goodness of people and that there is
    hope for the human race

    A young family moved into a house next door to a
    vacant lot. One day a construction crew turned up to
    start building a house on the empty lot

    The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took
    an interest in all the activity going on next-door and
    started talking with the workers. She hung around and
    eventually the construction crew, all of them
    gems-in-the-rough, more or less adopted her as a kind
    of project mascot

    They chatted with her, let her sit with them while
    they had coffee and lunch breaks, and gave her little
    jobs to do here and there to make her feel important.

    At the end of the first week they even presented her
    with a pay envelope containing a dollar.

    The little girl took this home to her mother who said
    all the appropriate words of admiration and
    suggested that they take the dollar pay she had
    received to the bank the next day to start a
    savings account.

    When they got to the bank the teller was equally
    impressed with the story and asked the little girl how
    she had come by her very own pay check at such
    a young age. The little girl proudly replied, "I
    worked all last week with a crew building a
    house."
    "My goodness gracious," said the teller, "and
    will you be working on the house again this week,
    too?"

    The little girl replied, "I will if those useless
    [censored] at Home Depot ever bring us the [censored]
    drywall insulation."

    *******************
    --
    Gordon

  2. Darren G said:

    Interestingly she seems to have a very natural eye
    for timing and composition, especially candid portraits and
    landscapes, which makes me wonder if she has a gift for it or if at
    that age we all have it and it is bred out of us by 'the day job'.

    I don't think we all have it in is. It's often been said that some
    people have "an eye for a photo". I think it's an instinctive thing (it
    is with me anyway), but not instinctive to everyone. I'd guess that
    this instinct is more likely to be possessed by Arbies (right brain
    types) who are naturally creative. Elbies (left brain types) who take
    up photography are far more likely to learn the "rules of composition"
    to compensate for their inability to compose creatively.

    Just a quick theory, may have no basis in reality. Might be interesting
    if someone were to do some research into this.

    Paul
    --
    http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk
    http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk

  3. In article <[email hidden]>,
    [email hidden] says...

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    Darren G <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,
    [email hidden] says...

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    Dominic Sexton <[email hidden]> wrote
    >In article <[email hidden]>, Gordon
    ><[email hidden]> writes
    >>The friend is cute, 12 years younger, and much more nimble down the dry
    >>valley and over the limestone pavement, which set me thinking.....
    >>
    >
    >Has she got a daughter? ;-)
    >
    Ha Ha! No - two sons and a golfing husband. We are helping her to
    have a life.

    very noble & charitable of you to give all this time so selfishly ...
    and without prospect of any reward :-)


    We go walking anyway, and she started by joining us on a local stroll.
    I note the smiley, but she is good company, and has been a friend of
    M****, my lady friend for some 20 years. They met when she used to run
    an exercise class at the gym M**** attended.

    can't argue with that!

    My usual walking partner is of the opposite sex which gives rise to all
    sorts of misconstrued comments from friends and strangers. I /think/
    the wife understands!

    --
    Darren

  4. In article <[email hidden]>,
    [email hidden] says...

    Quoted message said:

    Darren G <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:


    since 5 year old daughter got into geocaching I struggle to get her to
    walk to the car without the gps. Oh, and I got the shop to throw in
    free a cheap digital camera [1] when I bought my 300D. She now has that
    with similar effect.

    [1] digital for a child may seem excessive, but it saves a fortune on
    printing costs. Interestingly she seems to have a very natural eye for
    timing and composition, especially candid portraits and landscapes,
    which makes me wonder if she has a gift for it or if at that age we all
    have it and it is bred out of us by 'the day job'.


    Keep a close eye on her - I saw this in another newsgroup:

    *************

    Touching Story - must read through to end

    [...]

    like it.

    More worryingly, last time I d/l'ed the images onto her PC, I found that
    there were getting on for a hundred taken out of her bedroom window of
    the comings and goings of the neighbours, local cars, people in their
    gardens, etc.

    We had a little chat!

    She now knows that if she gets any pictures of the neighbour opposite in
    her bedroom she should show them to me right away!

    --
    Darren

  5. Darren G <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:


    My usual walking partner is of the opposite sex which gives rise to all
    sorts of misconstrued comments from friends and strangers. I /think/
    the wife understands!


    Mine did too! After dragging her and the kids round Kinder, OM of
    Coniston etc, it dawned on us all that they just didn't enjoy it, so I
    continued with a group from work, which dwindled from 12 to 2 of us.

    We walked together for about 30 years, on and off.
    She is a very independent lady who now walks with another chap.
    --
    Gordon

  6. Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the
    wonderful person Darren G <[email hidden]> said
    <snip>

    Quoted message said:

    My usual walking partner is of the opposite sex which gives rise to all
    sorts of misconstrued comments from friends and strangers.

    Wouldn't strangers just think she =is= your wife?

    Most of the couples I meet out walking are male/male, which probably
    attracts even more misconceptions.

    --
    GSV Three Minds in a Can
    Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing.

  7. GSV Three Minds in a Can <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:

    Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the
    wonderful person Darren G <[email hidden]> said
    <snip>

    Quoted message said:

    My usual walking partner is of the opposite sex which gives rise to all
    sorts of misconstrued comments from friends and strangers.

    Wouldn't strangers just think she =is= your wife?

    Most of the couples I meet out walking are male/male, which probably
    attracts even more misconceptions.


    Why do you think I won't go on camping expeditions with this lot? ;-)
    --
    Gordon

  8. [email hidden] said...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Most of the couples I meet out walking are male/male, which probably
    attracts even more misconceptions.


    Why do you think I won't go on camping expeditions with this lot? ;-)


    Ahem. I have absolutely no idea. Why won't you?
    --
    I try to be a good example to my children, but they just see me
    as a dire warning.

  9. In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
    says...

    Quoted message said:

    Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the
    wonderful person Darren G <[email hidden]> said
    <snip>

    Quoted message said:

    My usual walking partner is of the opposite sex which gives rise to all
    sorts of misconstrued comments from friends and strangers.

    Wouldn't strangers just think she =is= your wife?

    yes. which leads to all kind of interesting conversations, especially
    when we're camping!

    We naturally play it up a bit and confuse the hell out of everyone.

    --
    Darren

  10. In article <[email hidden]>,
    [email hidden] says...

    Quoted message said:

    GSV Three Minds in a Can <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:

    Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the
    wonderful person Darren G <[email hidden]> said
    <snip>

    Quoted message said:

    My usual walking partner is of the opposite sex which gives rise to all
    sorts of misconstrued comments from friends and strangers.

    Wouldn't strangers just think she =is= your wife?

    Most of the couples I meet out walking are male/male, which probably
    attracts even more misconceptions.


    Why do you think I won't go on camping expeditions with this lot? ;-)

    We've told you before - you don't have to walk holding hands.

    And nobody believed your excuse last time that it's a legacy from your
    schooldays

    ;-)

    --
    Darren

  11. Fran <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:

    [email hidden] said...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Most of the couples I meet out walking are male/male, which probably
    attracts even more misconceptions.


    Why do you think I won't go on camping expeditions with this lot? ;-)


    Ahem. I have absolutely no idea. Why won't you?

    I have always been wary of groups of blokes, like rugby players who like
    to shove their heads between each others' thighs, and then jump in the
    bath together.

    Now if I could have got on a girl's team......
    --
    Gordon

  12. Darren G <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,
    [email hidden] says...

    Quoted message said:

    GSV Three Minds in a Can <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:

    Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the
    wonderful person Darren G <[email hidden]> said
    <snip>
    >My usual walking partner is of the opposite sex which gives rise to all
    >sorts of misconstrued comments from friends and strangers.

    Wouldn't strangers just think she =is= your wife?

    Most of the couples I meet out walking are male/male, which probably
    attracts even more misconceptions.


    Why do you think I won't go on camping expeditions with this lot? ;-)

    We've told you before - you don't have to walk holding hands.

    And nobody believed your excuse last time that it's a legacy from your
    schooldays

    ;-)


    I didn't go to a Pubic school....... ;-)
    --
    Gordon
    (Never assume typing errors)

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