*Mookey20

On Wednesday during my lunch break at work, I went to the dentist to have a tooth looked at as it has been causing me pain for the past few months. Being scared of dentists put me off visiting sooner.

While the dentist was poking around inside my mouth (why do they do that, even after you have told them where the pain is?!) he finally agreed that my wisdom tooth has to come out.

Thats not too bad I think to myself, I will have a nice sleep and he will remove it...WRONG! If I wanted to be put to sleep I would have to wait another 4 months! So instead I agreed to have a local injection and remain awake, the worst mistake I have made!! To begin with they dont pull teeth out anymore, they push them out. That involves digging under the gum and forcing them out.

For 15 minutes I was in agony, although I couldnt feel what was happening, I could hear the sound of crunching, I could see the dentist fighting with the tooth and that made me vomit (

The whole thing took 30 minutes and was the most painful experience I have been though. Although now I am not in much pain I am a lot better than I was before the bugger was taken out.

I have got a new job at a school in Kent as a grounds keeper, this involves marking out sports pitches, grass cutting, grounds maintance etc.

I have been in the job for 10 weeks and it is all going well...apart from an idiot I work with breaking my fingers 2 weeks ago!

What does this mean as far as DA is concerned? Well it means I get paid more money so I can buy better camera equipment (I have recently brought my first digital SLR a Nikon D50) that to date Im very impressed with.

It also means that I have more chance of my photos appearing in magazines and newspapers (not DA related I know but it is photo related)

Finally it means that I can finally get a car to travel around the UK on holiday to get better images instead of being confined to the South East and South of England.

Wish me luck!!

Guess what?!

As some of you might know I love working with nature so I have decided to do an assignment where nature and myself work together to get the results.

I will document the growth of pepper plants that I have just planted from seeds to full grown plants with (hopefully!) fruit growing off them.

As you may know nature doesnt work right away so I will photograph the plants once a week so if any changes do happen they will be more noticeable )

Wish me luck!!

Ladies, Gentlemen and Heather, the shite football team supporter

Well another year has gone by, it seems like only yesterday it was Christmas!

I thought l might take this time to wish you all a Merry Christmas, or as I call it in todays Politically Correct country "Happy Santa Day"! I hope you get all that you wished for and you dont put on too much weight!!

Now Im off before I get bitten by the Christmas bug! I think that dude Scrooge got Christmas right by sitting at home eating his bag of Humbugs...Heather thats a hint for what I want for Christmas

BAH HUMBUG

Slight moan at the DA Staff

Hello everyone, Over the past month I have been having problems with my gallery, for example loading photos that dont appear on the page. To say Im pissed off about it is an understatement.

Its all very well DA saying that:

"We are fully aware of these issues and our IT department is working daily in order to track the exact cause and to repair the fault.

This particular bug has proven difficult to isolate so we ask that all users please bear with us while our IT department continues to work at repairing this issue."

However the above quote taken from the forum [link] was typed out over a month ago. Why havent the DA staff kept us informed as to what is going on? Why should we, the members who pay money to DA suffer due to their staff not being able to do their jobs? If the DA staff cant deal with the bug, why cant they get people in who can? I will be interested to know what kind of compensation they will be offering their members.

I have given my gallery address to companies that I hope to work with in the photographic industry and many of them have commented that my gallery isnt updated very often, this is wrong because it is updated, its just website cant show the updated version. For me in this matter "sorry" isnt good enough.

My subscription runs out at the end of the year and if the gallery issue isnt sorted out soon I will not be paying for another subscription.

I look forward to a reply from the DA staff.

Signed, a very pissed off member.