Getting Ready

Clara and I have started getting our cases organised for our trip to Scotland. All the presents are packed away in the case and some clothes are neatly folder and ready for the slightly different Scottish climes.

A list has been made for all the things we would like to buy in Scotland such as:
1. Tea bags.
2. Books, books, books.
3. Stock cubes.
4. Deodorant.
5. Work shoes.
6. Lea & Perrins.
7. Pickled onions
8. etc

Our flight leaves Narita at midday and takes about 12 hours to Paris. After a couple of hours wait in Paris, we catch the plane to Aberdeen. I'm sure there will be lots of holiday blogs in the near future.

Camera for Scotland

Looks like we will all have a quiet weekend at home. Now it is only 2 weeks until Clara and I fly off to Scotland - we are both excited to be going back and it will be great to escape the stifling summer heat for a while.

Clara will stay in Scotland for 3 weeks so she needs a simple point-and-shoot camera to record all the things she gets up to. We bought a Panasonic Lumix FX-40 today and I have to say it looks pretty good and seems to have a high spec. I may start neglecting my Olympus SLR if the new Lumix works as well as it looks.

We are all going out tonight for monjayaki (a savory type Japanese pancake-like dish) so I may take along the new camera and see if it works.

::"#$%&!!¥ - GOD!!!!! The camera only has a Japanese language option.....arghhhhh!!!!!!!!!