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March Madness

Is a photo competition on Flickr . Because I'm away from home - and anyway temporarily out of chemicals - I am going to use a disposable camera and get it developed and onto CD at Snappy Snaps. Or somewhere: most of the photo dev places seem to be going out of business , or at any rate to be in serious trouble . (I couldn't find anything much about Klick in google news just now: even though Klicks all over, from Saltcoats to the Home Counties, are closed IRL).

Jessops v Snappy Snaps

Where was I? Oh yes... Just down Byres Road from Hillhead Subway station there's a Jessops , and I went in the other week to see if they would dev 120 colour film. No, indeed: "not even colour - you'll have to go to a specialist", and the man gave me the address of a place in Cowcaddens. Then a week or so later the Subway has to stop at Kelvinbridge , (I think because of temporary flooding - it was absolutely honking it down, and the Kelvin was in a very dramatic spate), and I approached the University from the other side, and went by a Snappy Snaps - not two hundred yards from the Jessops in the other direction. I got my first ever roll of 120 done at Snappy Snaps in Sunderland, so I went in and asked them if they dev'd it there. Yes. £3.50 for one hour, £2.50 for three. The price of a pint then. (So, did the man in Jessops really not know about this other shop in his doorstep? Or was he not for helping the local competition?) It gets better. The Snappy ...