This week I are mostly been…
- Shooting a year’s worth of Golf instruction stuff for Golf Monthly over in Gran Canaria, from very early Monday morning until very early Saturday morning. All good fun, thanks to a very professional and entertaining crew, but very hard work thanks to foul weather (torrential rain and hurricane force winds) and grumpy German Golfers. If you’d paid 75 euros to play a round of golf, as well as lord knows how much to travel to the Island and stay in a nice hotel, you could at least pretend to be enjoying yourself!
- Spending most of this morning wandering the very pretty hills of Surrey to shoot a race report for Men’s Fitness. Quite hard work since the event involved orienteering, rather than a fixed route. No great challenge for me to find my way about, as I’m pretty handy with an OS map, but a bit difficult when you’ve been told the best place to get shots, yomp over there, hang about, and then find that 95% of people have picked a different route. Harrumph. And to the charming local resident who pulled up in his Range Rover as we were leaving, yes I’m sure we did have permission to be there, and it happens to be a public bridleway, but by all means tell the Parish Council about us. And whilst you’re doing it would you mind sticking your head up your arse and then setting fire to it? Thank you so much. Apologies if I sound a little grumpy, I’m very, very tired, and people with more money than sense would be better served staying at home, reading the Daily Mail and adding to their collection of Nazi memorabilia. I was so tempted to let his tyres down when he went off to walk his dog, but feared the wrath of the parish council if I did so.
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Mmm Tom you do sound grumpy! Could be worse, you could be in a pretentious hotel in Manchester trying to sleep but the noise from traffic on the busiest junction in the world is keeping you awake and the concierge claims that they cannot move you because the hotel is full.
Ah well just six hours until I have to get up anyway.
All this just so I can run a camera course!
harrump indeed
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Oh yes, grumpy and tired, that's me.
I hear you about the hotel – we had almost exactly the same problem in the Canaries. Hotel was packed, and one of our group got food poisoning (from hotel food, no less). When we asked if she could stay in her room until right up until the point we transferred to the airport, rather than be kicked out at about 8am, we were told this was impossible as they were busy. No hint of apology for poisoning her, just the fact that they're busy.
After a little light negotiation, and a reminder that we were from a fairly popular magazine in the UK, they magically managed to find a room. Amazing what you can achieve when you threaten people with bad press!