Quizzes,

Last night I went to a quiz with some mates, it was a stange affair, the music round was delayed after 'technical difficulties' and some of the questions were OK and some were really difficult, mainly due to my complete lack of knowledge of 'modern' music...still, we won the first round, then we won the third round and the overall prize... we came away with a bottle of wine, a packet of Tesco 'value' biscuits and 2 rounds of drinks. So it turned out to be a worthwhile trot to the pub.The photo is of Rob, one of the team members, he looks well pleased with himself, and as of now we haven't seen the prizes since!

Yesterday was another very strange day at work, it's strange the kind of questions we get asked, I remember once being asked " Nelson visited here in 1802 have you got any photos?" Considering that it wasn't until 1841 that William Henry Talbot patented the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies. I had to explain that unfortunately there weren't any photos available of that particular visit. It was a busy day, lot's of books flowing in and out. I am at the moment working on a little myth busting excercise that will be on display in the Library during Refugee Week. I've been told many times by people who really should know better that Refugees and/or Asylum seekers get given Mobile phones, Leather jackets, council houses, car's...people have no clue do they? So, I have a little photo exhibit and some words to dispel those myths, I'll put some up here nearer the time.

Another idea I've been toying with is getting a cheap rangefiner camera, probably a Russian Fed or Zorki (manual and non electronic) from ebay and passing it around friends here and in Europe and Oz and asking them to put a roll or two of film through it and posting the results, it might be an interesting experiment, it's in the early planning stages at the moment but it should be fun.