I knew last night when reminding myself to take the video camera to capture the singing delights of my daughters class that I should have checked the battery life.....did I? Nope and hence I now have just the visual and audible memory of the lovely event this morning.
The extravagant purchase of the family video recorder last Christmas is fast proving to be up there with other "ooohhh" purchases like the "hot plate" and the "juicer" when it comes to usage and versatility. I distinctly remember thinking that I would spend time arranging family snippets into lovely motion pictures that could be emailed to friends, family and even uploaded onto YouTube but clearly I should have read the small print.
"Upon purchasing this item, you will probably use it all day upon opening to take footage of wrapping paper, the carpet and maybe a face. Over time you will allow your young children to experiment with being David Attenborough in the garden. You will continually forget to download and images to clear the memory card and finally, you will look stupid amongst other parents (when at first you looked smug) when trying to get the impressive looking kit to work when a fly's fart would have more luck in kicking life into the battery."
And to top it all - my so called "Smart" phone refused to allow me to take a reasonable photo......oh why did I bother?
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