365 Portraits - #243 ~ Brad, and his machine...

365 Portraits - #243 ~ Brad, and his machine..., originally uploaded by Oliver_Godby.

Brad is another one of the regulars down at the Rising Sun in Reading, and he has recently embarked upon a project of renovating the "fantastical machine" that used to run during opening hours above the tables by the front windows. He is pictured here with a part of it that he was cleaning up last night in the pub.

365 Portraits - #244 ~ Paul Kitchen

365 Portraits - #244 ~ Paul Kitchen, originally uploaded by Oliver_Godby.

Paul is another one of my wider circle of friends from Reading that I have met through the RUCC. He's a fine fellow and was not only good enough to get me out of a jam this evening by being ok to pose, but he was also fine company chatting about work and cameras and the like, and it seems that we might have a little poker game in a couple of weeks... It is also worth mentioning that today is the two-thirds mark; I have four months left to do in order to make my target, so best foot forward, so to speak...