@matigo Always was and always will be.
With my gastric reflux still being a problem I keep a "chuck bucket" by the bed. So it was ideally placed when I put an almost full cup of tea on the edge of the bedside table instead of a bit cliser to the middle. The bucket caught the lot.
Success! The eBay bid I put in on a 2003 Ricoh Caplio RR30 digital camera turned out to be the only bid. Something to be said for a smallish marketplace like eBay Australia, I guess. And the fact that it's a low-spec camera also cut down the bids. Cost $24.95, postage included. It's actually a very nice camera, has some interesting continuous shoot setups. On one, it takes 16 shots in 2 seconds, in another it takes a movie as long as the shutter is held open, then when the shutter is released, converts the last two seconds into 176 more quick pics. I used to use that quite a lot when I had such a camera.
It was my first digital camera but it wasn't tea-proof, as I discovered when it was drowned when a half-pint cup of tea spilled over it. Everything except the LCD eventually came good.
The replacement camera has a battery but no charger, not a problem, I still have the original Ricoh one, which also works with a shirt-pocketable Canon camera I have. The camera can run from its own 3.7 volt Li-ion battery or a pair of AA cells, another very useful feature.
I had a most magnificent scotch egg and minestrone soup for dinner tonight. Very fine winter fare. I bought some beef cheeks on Thursday, they'll go in the slow cooker sometime later in the week.
And there's a smoked ham hock in one of the freezers that's gonna become pea and ham soup in the not-to-distant future.
