While the peace talks around Ukraine continue to unravel faster than a cat playing with a ball of wool given Trumps lack of real grasp of the issues and Putin's ability to play him like a fiddle we'll get on other things as that changes every other hour.
Photography in various forms was always a thing with me from 127 film cameras, some pre-loaded variants such as the one I had in 1974 through 1976 in those heady days of Rollermania - and the camera had to returned to Renfewshire for developing and reloading! through Kodak 120 "Box" cameras bought cheaply from bring and buy stores to the Kodak Instant one I had in 1980.
Because of legal issues with Poloroid the originators of Instant Cameras whose prints self developed out of the camera, they had to discontinue it and start a replacement program which was when I first got a Disc Camera.
The disc camera was designed to be really easy to use using 8mm film mounted on a disc in a caddy you cliped in and unclipped to load it unlike threading film or slotting in a 126 or 110 cartridge and unlike many 126 camera came with built in, automatic electronic flash for indoor pictures rather than flash cubes you had to manually turn and change.
I used it taking pictures of favourite places often with many memories for me - and many of use cameras (or facilities on modern smart phones) to preserve memories although images tended to be a bit grainy lacking fine resolution.
By the 1990's I'd bought a Vivitar 35mm compact camera that had auto focusing and automated loading which armed wiith a decent 100 iso film took much better pictures but the think I liked about that Disc camera was its easy of carriage, fitting into a pocket or small clutch bag easily.
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