Potential

Moving things around trying to clean up the flat. It is difficult, for the wish for a clean flat i s not shared by the family. Maybe the wish is there, but there is no sense of importance. Nobody cares.

The cat only wants to cuddle. The silly animal must be getting sentimental in her old age.

The doorbell sounds, go downstairs. It is the postman, the parcel service, with the diopter adapter for the camera. It took a whole week to arrive because the sender did not pack it carefully enough and the parcel people had to repack it. No idea why these things happen, but they do.

The weather is great today, but there is no wish to leave the house. Continue to try and clear things up. Then try to set up the camera so that it will work with the long lens. It would be nice to take pictures of birds with it, those incredible cormorants, the swans and the ducks. But the lens is difficult to manage, and the sony camera will enable you to do everything if you have the patience to go through the menus and to understand the cryptic instructions and symbols there. Why does every technician have to try and invent their own language?

In the afternoon, the parts for the vacuum cleaner arrive. This is the onset of an orgy of vacuum cleaning, work at it untill the dust bag in the machine is full. The room does not look much better for it, but progress has been made.

Then look at the test pictures taken from the balcony of the castle. Realise that the pictures are of low contrast, but quite sharp. The lens has potential.