As my wife was quick to remind me I once swore that I’d never buy a selfie stick after getting sick of a sea of people (tourists) brandishing them around like lightsabers and trying their very best to take the top of one’s head off, or one of one’s eye out, I remember standing on the famous Rialto bridge in a hoard of tourist brandishing selfie sticks, it looked like a training session for the Japanese martial art of Kendo, so, with all of this in mind, I’ve just bought a selfie stick!, as Groucho Marx said “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them…well I have others.” Further fuelling the Chinese economy, it’s actually quite a nice (cheap) design with a built in bluetooth remote control and it doubles as a phone tripod/hand grip. I though it might be fun to experiment with shooting some footage principally for my blog as on-the-go contextual location info for my photographic postings. However I am NOT a Vlogger, feel free to remind me of this in the future, if my wife doesn’t beat you too it, should things look like taking that direction. 🙂

PS. Got to love “Chinglish” the instructions for removing and fitting the remote for my selfie stick read as follows “Unload and load Unloading and loading take out load” . I doubt if this even makes sense in Chinese. Fortunately “a child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five”