Sorry about the bad news Cotty. Steve Larson Redondo Beach, California
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 4:06 PM Subject: Good news and bad news > Hi Pentaxians, > > Just thought I drop a quick line to share the highs and the lows... > > Jostein Oksne is in London for a few days on business (from Norway) and > took the coach up to Oxford on Sunday morning. After a morning swim at a > local pool, and a lunch of homemade soup, we went for an afternoon > stroll, cameras in hand. Jostein had brought his Z1 and a few lenses, and > I took my whole digi kit along with tripod - I'll post some pics soon. > The weather was fabulous: touching on 20c (nearly 70f) and we had a > great foto-roam. Bear in mind that there is 30cm of lying snow in > Jostein's front garden in Oslo ;-) > > Sad then that the comraderie and wondeful afternoon was tinged with great > sadness for me to learn of the death of a colleague in Iraq. British ITV > News journalist Terry Lloyd had died in a gun battle near Basra (with 2 > others missing). I met Terry only 6 weeks ago when we worked together on > a story in Oxford about a man who was so insensed by the council putting > road calming humps outside his house (late night trucks rumbled over them > and kept him awake) that he dug them up with a JCB (digger). I spent a > couple of hours with Terry and found him to be one of the nicest and most > professional reporters I have met. I can understand the mountain of > sorrow and praise that followed news of his demise. I'm sure he will be > sadly missed. > > Cheers, > > Cotty > > _____________________________ > Oh swipe me! He paints with light! > http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps > _____________________________ > Free UK Mac Classified Ads at > http://www.macads.co.uk/ > _____________________________ > >
