Partner

According to some count or other this is my 1500th blip. It says a lot for the idea and spirit of blip that this has been even remotely possible.  I was surprised to make 25.

The vast majority of my blips have been with this trusty old Sony Alpha 300 with it's unwondrous 10.2 megawotsits.  I still remember the day sitting outside various camera shops in Cambridge, mulling on the relative merits of Canon and Nikon; and then going in, getting distracted, and coming out with a Sony.

I rather like Sony things and seem to have acquired quite a lot of them, not really intentionally. Not always the best build quality, but their usability is second to none; for me anyway.

Just for a bit of fun, the 'mirror' in use here is the same bathroom cabinet that featured in blip No.1, now decamped from the Cambridge house and languishing in the basement at the moment.

The last 1500 shots document quite a change of life - from software engineer in Cambridge to B&B owner in Malvern; from employee amongst 10,000 others, to a team of two; from one son at Uni to (the same) one working in London, one considering a PhD, and one headhunted by an agency in Copenhagen to do professional stop-frame animation. 

So what have I learnt over these 1500 days? Firstly, you can get away with most things in the name of blipart, and, two, forget Araldite, just use scrambled egg.