One of my little gremlin companions is that if I have not done something in a little while, the fear that I will forget how to do it and have to start all over again begins to gnaw at me.

It usually seems to begin somewhere around a month, which causes me to think that I should soon. If I ignore it, then the anxiety will grow slowly, but surely, until it becomes a real bother.

That’s where I found myself on Saturday morning when I loaded the roll of Astrum FN-64 into the camera for our little walk.

My little anxiety gremlin reminded me that I hadn’t developed any film in C-41 for around six weeks and in a twist of logic than can only be described as gymnastic, I began to fear that I will have forgotten how, will mess up my next roll, and ruin everything.

Now, the upper part of my mind knows that this is silly. In fact, the first time I *ever* developed C-41 last year, it went fine. So even if I had to learn all over again, I’d be alright.

But no. My little anxiety gremlin was going to settle in.

So yesterday after I developed the FN-64 roll, I promptly filled my bucket to heat up some water and mix up a new batch of C-41 chemistry. Sunday morning’s little walk would feature colour film and I would satisfy my little gremlin.

And you know what?

It went fine!

This morning, I exposed half a roll of some of the “Made in U.S.A.” Fujicolor 200 I recently purchased while we were out on one of our little local loops.

In the game of “Is it pictures?” It was pictures.

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