Frustration at 50mm

I’ve had a fairly tense relationship with my 50mm lens ever since I bought it last year. It’s a super-simple set-up without a motor for auto-focus so I’ve been having to focus it manually, which I have been awful at. This was feeling like yet another instance in which I'd reached a level of competence and then not bothered to move on: I can frame a nice shot (probably because I've looked at so many of my dad's) but don't really know what any of the buttons on my camera do. The frustration I experienced almost every time I used this lens at last motivated me to work a bit harder and, with a little advice from Ken Rockwell, I got my settings right and had a great time wandering around Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens with it...