I meant what I said…

& I said what I meant.

Today was supposed to be the day I got super excited & told you all that I had somehow(!!!) been invited to participate in the Canon Blogger Competition & was amazingly being loaned a 1D X camera for the duration of the competition. If you’re a regular reader of the blog you’d have some inkling of the level of happy dance that was going on at my place when that email came through!

As it turns out, there was some mix up with the availability of the camera…sob. I did get sent a camera to use for the competition but it’s not as good as my current click.

While I was crying into my coffee I kept thinking about the book “Horton Hatches the Egg” by Dr Seuss. Do you know it? It’s a cracker little tale about an elephant who agrees to keep an egg warm for a lazy mama bird “I won’t be long, sir. I give you my word. I’ll hurry right back. Why I’ll never be missed….” The poor elephant ends up sitting on the egg for flaming eons. Horton sits on that egg despite being out in the weather & laughed at & teased & finally moved (tree, nest & all) to the circus.

“I meant what I said & I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one hundred percent!”

The whole point of the Horton story is to say that I am part of the competition which is being run on Facebook. I guess it’s a popularity contest but if you’d like to swing by & check it out that would be most excellent. You can find the entries right here (voting opens at 9am).

Who knows…I might just hatch my own elephant bird!