--Horror story--

Friend asks me to shoot wedding, I agree as a a present.
@ weeks before wedding, friend books an old classmate for photos, I'm dropped out of it!!
I bring my 3 small toddlers to wedding as I'm not the photog, and spend most of the day running after them
I take a few impromtu shots of her children playing, guests milling flowers etc.
I notice photog leaving halfway thru reception I have had a few too many :O
Get home, upload my few photos to computer, computer turns them into thumbnails instead of saving them to my external HD and burning to a disk as is the defult
I ASS U ME that is has done its jobs, format memory card.
Friend rings up two days later, photog did a horrible job, only 200 photosmost crap, hardly and of kids and reception
I have none to give her!!

Lesson lernt ...Manually transfer files to EHD, burn disk as soon as RAWS are processed, burn printable JPEGS to another disk to take to shops.
Guard my computer with a letter opener in hand!

Lou