OK, I'll forgive you....

In the last three weeks I needed a hire car for work twice....and twice the car never turned up! Well after all my cursing I think I will forgive Avis as I had a nice letter this morning telling me what they had found out about the first rental disaster and that I would be getting a corporate gift by way of an apology...ok I though it's going to take a couple of days/weeks to get here and it'll be a mousemat or keyring...Nope! A huge bunch of flowers and a bottle of wine....and on the same day I got the letter...in fact because the post only arrived at 1130 it was within an hour!!! Now that is an apology from customer service! Now they just need to make sure I get a car when I next need one!

So I have some flowers to make me smile and some wine to help me smile even more! Hoorah for Avis! It would probably be too much to hope for a repeat of the flowers....I mean who could be unlucky enough to have two rental disasters in 3 weeks!??!

Be Mine

I was seduced by the reading material in Manchester airport on my way back from the office last week...I didn't feel up to 'The Time Traveller's Wife' just yet...although it will be my next read! Anyway amongst all the trashy novels which seemed to be on offer to the holidaying masses was this one...'Be Mine'by Laura Kasischke. Whilst it is billed as an 'erotic thriller' it is not cover to cover sex! It was a compelling read...and there were no chapters as such...it was divided into 3 parts, I suppose you could call them chapters as they focused around the before, during and after periods of the goings on...if you haven't got a day or to just to sit and read a bookmark is a must! I did enjoy it...it made a change form the 'tame' books I have been reading! Would I read again? Probably not...Would I pick this author again...hmmm...probably not as this is her 4th 'adult' novel I am thinking that they may be a bit formulaic...but then I guess the proof is in the reading!
...as an aside it must have been good for me to be able to read it so quickly!

Big Stone Gap

Next on my list of 2007 reads is 'Big Stone Gap' by Adriana Trigiani here is the synopsis. As books go it was ok, another easy read...there was some humour a couple of love interests and a happy ending (which isn't a bad thing!). I managed to finish this on the first night of my latest trip to Alty...This book is the first in a series about a woman living in a sleepy Virginia town. She starts a journey to find out who she really is after her mum dies and she finds out that her real father is not who she thinks it is!

FinePix Revival

Last week I managed to finally source a Compact Flash card for our Fuji s602z... initially it was going to be a whopping great 4GB card...but after trying it and it not working, I exchanged the 4GB for a 2GB which works great and is plenty big enough to  hold 855 shots when using 6M Fine setting!! So the hulk of a camera is having a bit of a revival round here...I have decided that I am going to try and take some 'decent' photos rather than random snapshots! That is proving a bit more tricky than I first thought for a number of reasons....Sunshine, shaky hands and the need for a topic to work around! Any suggestions for a topic/mini project will be warmly received...they may not be undertaken...but it could prove interesting!