Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 21-4-2026 — Elizabeth 2nd (Ten Questions)

21st April, 2026: Elizabeth 2nd.

OK, I’ve done it!

I’ve sent back the camera* I bought from Amazon.

This one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GDY2T7B3

It didn’t, if you’ll excuse the innuendo, have a hole in the bottom.

A mount for a tripod, in other words.

Which means I couldn’t screw it to the tripods I already have, plonk it on my desk, and film myself.

Nor would the camera fit in the cradle at the top of my tripod: with the flip-up screen, the flip up screen that would let me monitor any recording, flipped up.

I’m left … 

Well, I honestly couldn’t tell you how I feel about this.

But it has been a learning experience.

It means that, should I choose to buy another camera, I’m going to know what to look for.

A hole in the bottom for a tripod mount: or a screen that flips out of the things side.

~≈📸≈~

Oh, about the only other thing I bought, recently?

Is a blu-ray copy of The Day of the Triffids: the 1981, BBC version.

A version that’s fairly authentic to Wyndham’s original text.

About my only complaint?

Is that the box-set is quite vanilla: featuring only the six broadcast episodes, an omnibus version of the story, and an eight minute featurette about the show’s restoration for this release.

I can only hope that — were this to get a 4k version — that extra features would be included.

~≈🫚≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 6-5-2023 — The Coronation.

6th May, 2023: The Coronation.

Right … 

I don’t know about King Charles … but I’m having a long day.

I was up at five: to try and see how much of the Coronation I could watch … without getting bored!

I’m not especially royalist.

But this is possibly the only Coronation that’ll happen in my lifetime!

~≈👑≈~

Did I mention I had a doctor’s appointment, yesterday?

I had a doctor’s appointment, yesterday.

Or, at least, a diabetic checkup.

Apparently, my lipids are up.

But my glucose level has gone from 62 to 57.

So that’s something.

~≈🩸≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 6-2-2022: The Queen.

6th February, 2022.

OK: confession time.

I made today’s intro video, when I had the radio on: and — at that point on a Sunday morning? — On Your Farm was on.

Complete with an Article about a family of dairy farmers.

With — I should add — cows.

Going moo.

Understandably: it’s a herd of cows, after all.

The reason I mention it … ?

Is that it still amazes me, what catches your attention on a Sunday morning.

~≈Û≈~

I’ve got to confess, I helped a friend out, this week.

By giving them some large-ish video files: on a USB stick.

He wanted to send them to a friend of his: via Dropbox.

However?   Something happened: the files wouldn’t play.

But DID … when I sent them to him through WeTransfer, and he downloaded them.

And also did so … when I sent them to two other people … but not to a third!

I’m thinking there’s all sorts  going on.

But the safest thing to say … ?

Is that somewhere in transit, those files got damaged, or corrupted.

Something’s gone wrong somewhere, in other words.

~≈Û≈~